Endowment elects Marlboro woman to post of secretary

MARLBORO — Susan Feinstein of Marlboro has been elected secretary of the Sister Rose Thering Endowment for Jewish Christian Studies at Seton Hall University, South Orange.

“It’s an honor to have someone the caliber of Susan Feinstein as our secretary,” said Dr. David Bossman, executive director of the endowment. “In the years she has been on our board, Mrs. Feinstein has had a great impact on the success the Sister Rose Thering Endowment has had in forwarding the vision and mission of the late Sister Rose Thering. We look forward to continued accomplishments and achievements during Mrs. Feinstein’s tenure.”

Feinstein is president of Cables and Chips Inc., a Manhattan-based company she owns with her husband, Howard, that provides infrastructure cabling, voice, data and fiber optics in the tri-state region and Florida.

Cables and Chips manufactures custom computer cables and sells computer peripherals. A lifetime member of Congregation Sons of Israel, Manalapan, and Hadassah, Feinstein is also on the board of the Jewish Children’s Museum, Crown Heights, N.Y. She and her husband have two sons, Geoff and Lane, a daughter-inlaw, Adena, and three grandchildren.

According to a press release, the Sister Rose Thering Endowment was created and named in honor of Sister Rose Thering in recognition and appreciation of her exemplary dedication throughout her life to improving Jewish-Christian relations through education, especially at the elementary and secondary school levels.

The goals of the endowment’s programs are to reduce prejudice born of ignorance and misperception, to promote means for the conveying the richness of the Jewish and Christian traditions accurately and without bias, and to foster cooperation among Jews and Christians in areas of common social welfare.

More than 350 teachers throughout New Jersey have benefited from endowment scholarships for their studies at Seton Hall University’s Jewish-Christian Studies graduate program during the past 15 years, and have had an impact on more than 150,000 students in their classes, according to the press release.