Was There Anything Redeemable About Jewish Gangsters?
There was a time in America when Jewish gangsters ruled the roost, even if their practice of Judaism was more folk than frum.
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There was a time in America when Jewish gangsters ruled the roost, even if their practice of Judaism was more folk than frum.
An interview with Robert and Eytan Rockaway, who collaborated on the screenplay for Eytan’s recently released biopic, Lansky.
Harvey Keitel plays gangster Meyer Lansky in the new biopic that opens in Israel on Thursday.
Comment: At the end of this article is a must-watch documentary - Assassination of The Kennedy Brothers - made by the author. By a strange paradox, most Kennedy researchers who believe that Oswald was "just a patsy" spend an awful lot of time...
Tough Jews, Las Vegas, and the Legacy of Meyer Lansky He left a disturbing legacy of inexcusable violence, but endures as a humanized figure of intense fascination for the American public. Larry Greenfield is a Fellow of The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy. August 1971: Meyer Lansky (1902-1983) at Mount Olive, Israel. In the background is the city of Jerusalem, with a view of the Omar Mosque on the right. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In his autobiography “Being Oscar: From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas,” Oscar Goodman recounts his 35 ...