Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy

{{Short description|Modern Orthodox Private Yeshiva in New Jersey}} {{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} The '''Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy''' is a [[coeducation]]al [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox]] [[Jewish day school|Yeshiva Day School]] located in [[Livingston, New Jersey|Livingston]], [[New Jersey]]. The Academy is dedicated to developmental education and religious growth, for both boys and girls from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8. The affiliated [[Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School]] serves students in grades nine through 12.

As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 690 students (plus 42 in PreK) and 133.8 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 5.2:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&ID=00868688 School data for Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy Rae Kushner Yeshiva], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed September 1, 2025.</ref>

==History== The school was founded by [[Charles Kushner]], named in honor of his father [[Joseph Kushner]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url= https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/charlie-kushners-redemption/ |title= Charlie Kushner's redemption |magazine= The Real Deal: New York Real Estate News |author= Katherine Clarke |date= February 2017 }}</ref>

In 2020, the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy was the recipient of $1–2 million dollars in [[Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act|Paycheck Protection Program]] loans from the US [[Small Business Administration]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Rich|first=Steven|date=July 6, 2020|title=Explore the SBA data on businesses that received PPP loans|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/sba-ppp-data/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=NJJN |title=Kushner campus enhanced by major capital projects |url=https://njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com/kushner-campus-enhanced-by-major-capital-projects/ |access-date=2019-05-19 |website=njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.jkha.org/ Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy Website] *[http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&SchoolID=00868688&ID=00868688 Data for Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]

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