Family
Kushner's parents were Joseph and Rae Kushner, who had come to America from Belarus by way of Italy in 1949. When Charles Kushner was born on May 16, 1954, his mother wanted to name him "Chanan", a Yiddish name, after her brother, who was killed in the Holocaust, but she was overruled by an American nurse. Joseph Kushner worked as a construction worker and independent builder, while acquiring real estate, totalling 4,000 New Jersey apartments, which Charles Kushner began managing in 1985. Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy and Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School, in Livingston, New Jersey, built by Charles Kushner, are named after them.
Charles Kushner grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey, with an elder brother, Murray, and a sister, Esther. His son Jared Kushner is the owner of the New York Observer, and is married to Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump.
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