A former hip-hop record exec who converted to Orthodox Judaism was killed last night during a robbery at the Flatbush kosher-wine store where he worked, police and witnesses said.
"He was a good guy. Rock solid," Rabbi Ezra Max said of Jamaican-born Yoseph Robinson.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/brooklyn_liquor_store_slaying_br6zXe60rOzPKPrdt1Lx6K#ixzz0xA9ujkD8
A Jewish Press interview with Mr. Robinson stated the following:
At the height of his musical success and while indulging in all the material abundance Hollywood had to offer, Yoseph chanced upon a Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch edition of the Chumash. Yoseph's life was transformed. He decided to reject the emptiness and egotism of the Hollywood lifestyle and embrace Yiddishkeit.
http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/44057/
A New York Times article titled Young Lawyers Turn to Public Service relates how the economic downturn has led young lawyers to accept deferrals from high paying law firms and work in the public service sector.
With the deferral year ending, some of these newly minted lawyers are surprised to find themselves reconsidering their career goals and thinking about staying with public interest law.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/us/20defer.html?_r=1&hpw
These lawyers are considering accepting "lower salaries in favor of helping clients at a basic level."
While these lawyers won't be able to afford six figure fish tanks, perhaps they are trading material abundance for a life of values and helping others.
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