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Yitzhak Aharon Korff

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He has served as an advisor and consultant in both public and private international relations, assisting numerous governments (including the United States, the U.K., Austria, Thailand, China, Jordan and others) in matters of diplomacy and international relations, and he has advised numerous national
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He organized and staffed one of the first White Collar Crime Units and Juvenile Diversion Units in the United States as a special consultant to the Norfolk County (Mass.) District Attorney's Office, and he served as a Special Assistant Attorney General for Massachusetts. On a political level he has
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of Law and Diplomacy and the Harvard Law School International Law Center he received an M.A. in international relations, an M.A.L.D. in international law and diplomacy, and a Ph.D. in international law. He was also a resident graduate at Harvard Divinity School.
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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Korff served as rabbi of several Orthodox congregations in Boston and Providence, at Temple Beth Sholom in Providence which he converted from Conservative to Orthodox (becoming Cong. Beth Sholom), and at
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Korff simultaneously combined careers as a rabbi, chaplain, lawyer, diplomat, businessman and entrepreneur. His grandfather Jacob I. Korff was a Hasidic Rebbe, and he eventually assumed the position of successor to his grandfather.
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advised candidates for political office at the City Council, Mayoral, Mass. Senate, Governor's Office, and U.S. Senate and Congressional level, and assisted officials in substantive matters following their election to office.
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After marrying Shari Redstone, Korff also went into the family's entertainment business, which he expanded internationally. He served as president of
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He is admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts and Washington, DC, and to the US Supreme Court, US Court of International Trade, and US Tax Court.
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and a descendant of the Baal Shem Tov and the Hasidic dynasties of Zvhil, Zlotshev, and Tshernobl. She is the daughter of the late
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Korff (center) in his study with cousins including Rabbi Yitzhak Twersky (left) and Grand Rabbi
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School of Law, and holds the BA., B.J.E., J.D., and LL.M. degrees. In conjunction with The
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Korff's father was Nathan (Nochum or Menachem Nochum) Korff, who served as founding
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in the original Hebrew/Yiddish/Aramaic and in English translation, on
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Meshivas Nefesh Yitzchok: Insights of a Contemporary Chassidic Master,
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and multi-national business ventures in the United States and abroad.
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Grand Rabbi, chaplain, lawyer, diplomat, businessman and entrepreneur
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whom he married in 1980 and later divorced, is the daughter of
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He received three ordinations (Smicha, D.D.), educated at
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movement, through both the Baal Shem Tov's grandson
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Columbia University
Harvard University
Hebrew College
Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Brooklyn Law School
Boston University School of Law
Shari Redstone

Shlomo Goldman

Rebbe
Zvhil
Mezhbizh
Boston
Jerusalem
dayan
Beth din
The Jewish Advocate
rabbi
Milton, Massachusetts
Baruch Korff
Richard Nixon
Baal Shem Tov
Hasidic
Rabbi Boruch
Medzhybizh
Mezhbizh Hasidic dynasty
Chernobyl

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