{"id":46741,"date":"2018-12-23T13:32:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T19:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=46741"},"modified":"2019-02-01T16:43:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T22:43:05","slug":"investment-banker-joseph-konopny-funeral-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/investment-banker-joseph-konopny-funeral-is-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Investment banker Joseph Konopny funeral held Dec. 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOSEPH KONOPNY, an investment banker died on Saturday, December 22, 2018. He was 73.<\/p>\n<p>Konopny&nbsp;was a resident of New Orleans since the 1990s and regularly attended services at the Uptown Chabad House.<\/p>\n<p>Born in a Displaced Persons camp in 1945 to Holocaust survivor parents, he emigrated to the U.S., living in rural Connecticut on his parents&#8217; chicken farm. As a youngster, he was enrolled in a nearby cheder (Hebrew school) where his Hebrew teacher was Israel Gordon, the uncle of Bluma and Zelig Rivkin and the great-uncle of Rabbis Mendel and Yochanan Rivkin.<\/p>\n<p>A graveside service was conducted at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 23, at Ahavas Shalom Cemetery, 4000 Elysian Fields Avenue. Rabbi Yossie Nemes officiated.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are suggested to the charity of your choice.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Investment%20banker%20Joseph%20Konopny%20funeral%20held%20Dec.%2023\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[8790,8795,9793,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46766,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46741\/revisions\/46766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}