kushner Archives – Jewish Journal

A peace process? Come back another time

Shmuel Rosner August 24, 2017

Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner will accompany president on Israel trip

JTA April 27, 2017

Jared Kushner’s family won’t buy Marlins if current owner becomes ambassador to France

JTA February 16, 2017

Kushner family in talks to buy Miami Marlins

JTA February 10, 2017

CUNY nixes Kushner honorary degree over anti-Israel statements

Jewish Journal May 4, 2011

The City University of New York has voted not to honor playwright Tony Kushner with an honorary degree at its commencement after a board member objected, citing the Pulitzer Prize winner\’s anti-Israel statements. The New York Jewish Week reported that the request by CUNY\’s John Jay College to recognize Kushner was turned down at a board of trustees meeting Monday after board member Jeffrey Wiesenfeld objected. Kushner would have been eligible to speak at the graduation ceremony.

Racial Tensions Take Center Stage

Naomi Pfefferman November 25, 2004

When the \”Coloreds Only\” sign disappeared from a water fountain at the train station in Tony Kushner\’s hometown of Lake Charles, La., one day in the early 1960s, it was a sign of the dawning civil rights movement, which had emerged elsewhere in the South but only subtly in Lake Charles.\n\nIn Kushner\’s liberal Jewish home, relatives spoke excitedly of the changes while an African American maid, Maudie, washed and ironed all day in the hot basement. In her starched white uniform, she toiled as black domestics had done for generations of white families in Lake Charles.