The Jewish Theological Seminary Louis Marshall Award Dinner

Gershon Kekst, founder and chairman of Kekst and Company and visionary chair of The Jewish Theological Seminary’s Board of Trustees for eighteen dynamic and innovative years, will receive the Louis B. Marshall Award at an event in his honor. Abby Joseph Cohen, JTS board chair, is honorary dinner chair. Co-chairs include James Fingeroth, Alan Levine, Lawrence Rand, Robert S. Rifkind, Gerald Rosenfeld, and Joan and Sanford I. Weill. Mr. Kekst, now Chairman Emeritus of JTS, presided over the creation of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education, the largest pluralistic graduate program of its kind in the United States, and the appointment of JTS Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen. He also oversaw the development of new JTS partnerships around the world and is a long-time advocate of interfaith outreach, most recently to the Muslim community. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Kekst serves on numerous boards, including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting-WNET Thirteen and Montefiore Medical Center, and is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. Founded in 1970, Kekst and Company is a communications consultancy firm specializing strategic, corporate, and financial communications. The firm’s clients reach across nearly every industry and range from large, global companies, to smaller, privately held businesses.