Gershon kekst biography

Gershon Kekst was born on Oct. 12, 1934, in Salem, Mass.
Gershon Kekst was born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts, and founded the public relations firm Kekst & Company, a corporate and financial.
Below are the eulogies delivered for Gershon Kekst by former JTS Chancellor Ismar Schorsch and me at the funeral on March 19, 2017.

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The Kekst family legacy

The new Gershon Kekst International Office opened its doors in the fall to offer a bevy of essential services to visiting faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students from overseas, responding to a dramatic rise in the number of international guests at the Weizmann Institute in recent years. The Kekst Office was inaugurated in a special ceremony at the 2018 International Board.

It is a fitting tribute to the late Gershon Kekst, the New York public relations executive and philanthropist who dedicated himself to globalizing the Weizmann Institute name and reputation until he passed away in 2017 at age 82.

The new Kekst Office is located in the former home of the late Prof. Ephraim Katzir, a renowned biophysicist at the Weizmann Institute who served as the fourth President of Israel. It will serve the growing community of international students, postdocs, and visiting scientists—making them feel at home away from home. At any given time, nearly 100 visiting faculty members are on campus, and about 800 per year. The number of international students and postdo

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Remembering Gershon Kekst (z”l)

By Arnold M. Eisen

Posted on Mar 21, 2017

Below are the eulogies delivered for Gershon Kekst by former JTS Chancellor Ismar Schorsch and me at the funeral on March 19, 2017. Together, Dr. Schorsch and I had the privilege of working with Gershon during his remarkable 18 years of service as chair of the JTS Board of Trustees.

A Eulogy for Gershon Kekst

by Arnold M. Eisen

When I got the news of Gershon’s passing, the image and emotion that came to my mind were what I had seen and felt flying across the country last Sunday afternoon. I had a window seat, and the sky was remarkably clear. We flew for a long time over frozen plains, which eventually gave way to black-brown foothills and then to higher peaks, many of them snow-capped. The scene was so magnificent that I could not take it in. I had no words for it, just stared and stared, not knowing what to do with the grandeur except to praise the Creator who had made it, feel humbled in its presence, and be thankful that I was here to witness it, all the more from that vantage point of 35,000

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public relations consultant

Gershon Kekst, American public relations consultant. Board governors Weizmann Institute of Science; trustee Brandeis University, Montefiore Medical Center, Jewish Theological Seminary; Fellow: American Academy Arts & Sciences; member: American Academy Political and Social Science, Public Relations Society America (counsellors section), Harmonie Club (New York City), New York Economic Club.

Background

Kekst, Gershon was born on October 12, 1934 in Peabody, Massachusetts, United States.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University Maryland., 1956. Founder, president Kekst & Company, corporation and finance public relations counsel, New York City, 1970;board director Loral Corporation Board Governors Weizmann Institute Science. Trustee BrandeisU., Montefiore Medical Center, Jewish Theological Seminary.

Career

Board director Loral Corporation. Founder & president Kekst & Company, corporation & finance public relations counsel New York City, since