In his 80 years, Meyer Lansky worked alongside the most notorious gangsters in American history. He spearheaded a worldwide gambling racket and allegedly had quite a few people murdered for getting in ...

He was a man who loved Israel, but not enough to behave in it. There was this time a few years back when Meyer Lansky, living in Florida, decided that a prosecutor’s questions could best be answered ...

Mobster Meyer Lansky was once quoted as saying that he kept his business in his hat. It must have been some hat. Or maybe not. A new cinematic character study, Lansky, was just released. As the author ...

Aaron Lansky, who went looking for Yiddish books as a graduate student and ended up preserving the language and its culture with a collection of 1.5 million volumes, is retiring from the Yiddish Book ...

Tom Santilli is a respected journalist and member of the Critics Choice Association, Detroit Film Critics Society and Online Film Critics Society since 2010. Tom is the Executive Producer and co-host ...

JTA — Perhaps no American Jewish actor has been so closely associated with crime films as Harvey Keitel. During a career now in its sixth decade, the 82-year-old Keitel has appeared in “Mean Streets,” ...

HAVANA — The heirs of American organized crime legend Meyer Lansky want compensation for his nationalized hotel, the Riviera, the seaside home to one of the last casinos built in swinging Havana of ...

Sandra Lansky, with her son Gary Rapoport on the porch of their Seminole Heights home, holds a photo of her father, Meyer Lansky. “They spolied me rotten,” Lansky says of the many mob men she called ...

It took years for Sandra Lansky to realize her doting dad was a founding father of U.S. organized crime. And now, 31 years after his death, she’s shocked to discover Meyer Lansky is a part of pop ...

Harvey Keitel stars as the underworld financial wizard in this dramatization. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

(JTA) — Perhaps no American Jewish actor has been so closely associated with crime films as Harvey Keitel. During a career now in its sixth decade, the 82-year-old Keitel has appeared in “Mean Streets ...