Kushner Companies chairman receives honorary degree. (Who's News: Management Personnel).Charles Kushner of Livingston, chairman of Kushner Companies, Inc, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Noun 1. Doctor of Humane Letters - an honorary degree in letters honorary degree, honoris causa - a degree conferred to honor the recipient degree at Yeshiva yeshiva Academy of higher Talmudic learning. Through its biblical and legal exegesis and application of scripture, the yeshiva has defined and regulated Judaism for centuries. Traditionally, it is the setting for the training and ordination of rabbis. University's 78th Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation on Dec. 8, at The Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. Mayor Bloomberg, also an honorary degree recipient, was the event's keynote speaker. Dr. Norman Lamm, President of Yeshiva University, said, "Charles' benevolence BENEVOLENCE, duty. The doing a kind action to another, from mere good will, without any legal obligation. It is a moral duty only, and it cannot be enforced by law. A good wan is benevolent to the poor, but no law can compel him to be so. BENEVOLENCE, English law. and good will extend far and wide, and to Yeshiva University, he has been and will always remain a true friend." A founding member of the Board of Directors of Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women Stern College for Women (SCW) is the undergraduate women's college of arts and sciences at Yeshiva University. It is located at Yeshiva University's Midtown Campus in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan. , Kushner told the audience that among his donations to Yeshiva, he endowed the Kushner Cafeteria in Stern College, "Because it was where my wife and I met for the first time and subsequently many times after." As one of the nation's fastest-growing privately held real estate organizations in the Northeast, Kushner Companies is a diversified private real estate company earning a reputation as respected owners, developers, redevelopers, and managers of residential, commercial, retail, industrial, and hotel properties. Headquartered in Florham Park, N.J., with executive offices in Manhattan, the firm aggressively pursues development and acquisition with holdings in New Jersey, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Florida. Kushner's contributions extend far beyond his business acumen, for which he received the New Jersey Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1999 in the real estate category. He developed a new campus for the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy The Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy is a coeducational Modern Orthodox Yeshiva Day School located in Livingston, New Jersey. The Academy is dedicated towards developmental education and religious growth, for both boys and girls from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8. in memory of his father and serves on its board of directors. In 1999, President Bill Clinton appointed Mr. Kushner to the US Holocaust Memorial Council. In 2001, Kushner was the honored by Cerebral Palsy cerebral palsy (sərē`brəl pôl`zē), disability caused by brain damage before or during birth or in the first years, resulting in a loss of voluntary muscular control and coordination. of New Jersey. Beside Bloomberg, receiving an honorary degree with Kushner were prominent communal leaders Elliot Wolk, Betty Feinberg, and Barry Shenkman. YU President Norman Lamm conferred all honorary degrees. |
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