 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.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.