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From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

Read this article in Yiddish. Jewish crime ain’t what it used to be. In 1908, New York Police Commissioner Theodore Bingham caused a scandal when he asserted in an article in the North American Review that half the city’s criminals were Jews. The Jewish community was outraged and Bingham was forced to retract his statement. In fact, studies have long shown that Jews have a relatively low crime rate, lower than that of other religious groups. For much of their history, Jews were generally le...

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David Cade, and Danny A. Abeckaser. This looks like a rather chilling mob story, mostly because of the way he speaks so confidently and frighteningly. Heres the official trailer (+ poster) for Eytan Rockaways Lanksy, direct from YouTube: David Stone (Sam Worthington), a renowned but down-on-his-luck writer, gets a surprise opportunity of a lifetime when he receives a call from Meyer Lansky (Harvey Keitel). For decades, authorities have been trying to locate Lanskys alleged nine-figure fortune...

The leaders of the Nevada Republican Party are facing an internal revolt after an avowed Proud Boys member said he was invited with friends to cast the deciding votes last month in the censure of a state official who concluded that the 2020 election in the state was not tainted by fraud.

Skip to main content Currently Reading Nevada GOP thrown into turmoil after avowed Proud Boys member said he participated in censure vote of state official Michael Scherer, The Washington Post May 25, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Supporters of President Donald Trump pray as they protest the election outside of the Clark County Election Department, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, in North Las Vegas.John Locher/AP The leaders of the Nevada Republican Party are facing an internal revolt after an avowed Proud ...

%%excerpt%% Robert Durst is on trial in Los Angeles in the 2000 shooting death of Susan Berman, daughter of a Las Vegas mobster.

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While Susan Berman had a successful career in journalism and inherited $4 million from her fathers holdings, she died nearly broke (Wikipedia/Fair Use) Prior to Durst becoming the prime suspect in the case, Susans murder was believed to have had all the hallmarks of a mob hit. Some of her friends, according to the Daily Mail, even speculated that it could have been an act of revenge for some old crime committed by her father David The Jew Berman, reportedly one of the most notorious mobsters in...