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Meyer Lansky
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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
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AFP
June 29, 2021, 6:14 am
In ‘Lansky,’ Harvey Keitel puts legendary gangster’s Jewishness front and center
Now playing in US theaters and available on-demand, the film by director Eytan Rockaway seeks to understand the notorious criminal who supported Israel and fought Nazis
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Stephen Silver
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
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Rich Tenorio
March 7, 2020, 5:43 am
‘Numb3rs’ star says his grandfather was Meyer Lansky’s driver
‘I come from a long line of tough Jews,’ David Krumholtz says while promoting new TV series ‘The Plot Against America,’ which reimagines an America consumed by anti-Semitism
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Gabe Friedman
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
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AFP
September 12, 2016, 5:25 pm
Why is Bank Leumi telling foreigners to close their accounts? And what’s the link to Israel’s malignant black economy?
As the US cracks down on tax evasion, Israel’s flourishing decades of money laundering for Diaspora Jews are being exposed. It’s part of a financial malaise that runs deep, and that harms all law-abiding Israelis
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Simona Weinglass
December 11, 2015, 3:32 am
Jewish mobster’s heirs seek compensation for Havana hotel casino
With US-Cuban ties restored, the descendants of Meyer Lansky say they are ‘entitled to something’ from 1950s establishment
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JTA
May 18, 2015, 6:21 am
Scrappy Israeli Air Force inspires three films
Two documentaries and a major motion picture are set to tell the story of the rise of the IAF
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Tom Tugend
April 14, 2013, 10:41 pm
Israel’s first flyboys soar again in celluloid
In telling the story of the volunteers who made up some 90% of the fledgling Israeli Air Force, three filmmakers are going their own ways
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Tom Tugend
November 23, 2012, 6:11 pm
New album attempts to recapture 2,000-year-old sounds from the Temple
In ‘Judeo,’ LA cantor Hillel Tigay mixes music from the Bible with modern influences such as Peter Gabriel
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Rebecca Spence
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