Who are Jared Kushner’s parents?

Ivanka Trump has said in the past she was  scared to bring dates home to father Donald, but it seems the Kushners were just as protective of their son.

Because while Jared’s grandparents came from humble beginnings, they worked hard to make their own fortune in the 1950s and eventually left a real estate portfolio to their son (and Jared’s father) Charles. They could never have imagined their grandson would one day make it to America’s White House.

So what are Jared’s parents like?

Charles Kushner is the son of Holocaust survivors who emigrated from the country now known as Belarus to the United States in 1949. The story of the group they were part of was even portrayed in the 2008 film Defiance starring Daniel Craig. Charles also has a Hebrew name (Chanan), after his mother’s brother who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

The couple brought up their children in an Orthodox Jewish community in Livingston, New Jersey. Seryl was against her sons marrying outside their faith, and may be the reason their eldest son Jared briefly split from Ivanka Trump in 2008 – at least according to author Vicky Ward in her book Kushner Inc. It’s also been reported that Charles and Seryl initially refused to meet Ivanka. Ivanka later converted to Judaism, as did supermodel Karlie Kloss , who wed their other son Joshua.

Charles created Kushner Companies in 1985 and the family real estate development business employs his eldest child Jared, as well as wife Seryl and daughter Nicole. In 2007, the company made a record-breaking US$1.8 billion investment in the Manhattan office building 666 Fifth Avenue.

By 2020, Kushner Companies had more than 20,000 flats and around 13 million sq ft of office, retail and industrial space. Charles and Seryl’s daughter Dara isn’t involved in the company and Joshua has separate businesses. Joshua did however end up taking on some family assets to avoid a conflict of interest when Jared began working for the US government in 2017.

 

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