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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

Bugsy Siegel

Meyer Lansky, reputed king of American gambling, takes a break outside the High Court of Israel where he was appealing for permission to stay in the Jewish state as an immigrant, March 1972. (AP)
June 14, 2022, 9:29 pm
Mobster Meyer Lansky’s WWII Medal of Freedom to go under hammer
Honor awarded to notorious gangster in secret 1945 ceremony expected to fetch $60,000 at auction, offered alongside personal items of ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, Al Capone and others
By AFP
A formally sunken boat sits on cracked earth hundreds of feet from what is now the shoreline on Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, May 9, 2022, near Boulder City, Nevada (AP Photo/John Locher)
May 10, 2022, 9:53 am
Vegas mob history resurfaces: Plunging lake exposes human remains
Two bodies emerge within a week in drought-stricken reservoir, with ex-mayor saying former mafia clients now keen on ‘climate control’: ‘It’s not a bad place to dump a body’
By Ken Ritter
A 1928 mugshot of Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, a Jewish American mobster, with significant influence within the Mafia and National Crime Syndicate. (Courtesy Yale University Press)
April 21, 2021, 4:33 am
How Jewish mobster Bugsy Siegel’s gamble on Vegas paid off after his murder
The movie star-handsome member of the infamous Murder, Inc. envisioned a gambling oasis in the desert, says a new book in Yale’s Jewish Lives series
By Rich Tenorio
Actor Harvey Keitel attends the Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit tribute to Martin Scorsese, presented by Chanel, on November 19, 2018, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
May 18, 2019, 9:26 pm
Harvey Keitel to play Meyer Lansky in gangster biopic
Veteran US actor headlines new movie focusing on latter-life of famous Jewish mobster
By AFP
Millicent Rosen, who passed away on November 17 at the age of 86, was mobster Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel's eldest daughter. (Courtesy Chabad.org)
November 22, 2017, 9:52 pm
Bugsy Siegel’s daughter gets Las Vegas Jewish burial
Millicent Rosen spent her final years talking about the personal side of her father, the notorious Jewish mob boss
By David Sedley
Michael Zegen, center, works those biceps in a scene from “A View from the Bridge.” (Jan Versweyveld / JTA)
January 1, 2016, 10:42 pm
From HBO to Arthur Miller, what a ‘tough guy’ actor learned from his Jewish grandma
Michael Zegen’s grandma gave him the Yiddish chops to play Bugsy Siegel on ‘Boardwalk Empire’; now he’s been cast as an Italian immigrant in ‘A View from The Bridge’ on Broadway
By Lonnie Firestone
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