Now There's a Haredi Orthodox Version of "Shark Tank" Online

ABC TV's Shark Tank features The Sharks -- tough, self-made, multi-millionaire and billionaire tycoons -- as they invest in America's best businesses and products. The Sharks give people from all walks of life the chance to chase the American dream, and potentially secure business deals that could make them millionaires.

Now there's an online version called BizTank aimed at the Haredi Orthodox Jewish community. 

As John Aidan Byrne wrote in the New York Post,

This unusual clone of the hit reality television series is Web-only — it can be seen online at biztankmoguls.com — and is the brainchild of Joel Klein, a former rabbi turned chief executive of Immediate Marketing & Business Consulting. And the purpose of his Brooklyn-based program isn’t to generate a mass audience, he says — it’s to connect entrepreneurs of the conservative Jewish Haredi community with mostly Jewish investors.

Launched last year, and hosted out of Klein’s offices in Williamsburg, “BizTank” brings in Jewish entrepreneurs who pitch a panel of seasoned investors, known as the “moguls.” The investments range from $50,000 to $5,000,000 — and so far $4 million in deals have been arranged.

Check out this video to see the moguls in action, and a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor and inventor who pitched his product to them.

Enjoy!

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Israeli Rabbi is Internet Business and Social Media Advisor to Google

Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg, who looks like he stepped out of a set filming Fiddler on the Roof, has been fiddling in major corporate business circles. 

The scion of a prominent rabbinic family, he worked his way up from giving advice on obtaining credit for business to advising Google, Yahoo, IBM, and other corporations large and small on the use of the Internet and social media in business.

Starting out in Brooklyn, he now lives in Israel, and travels the world advising his clients, writing columns, and conducting seminars and programs. In this video, he describes his journey to a most unexpected vocation.

Enjoy!

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