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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doug Weatherford, Duckmaster at the Peabody Hotel gives a tour with details of the Lansky Brothers clothing shop inside the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lansky, born in Russia in 1902, arrived in New York in 1911. Known as the “Mob’s Accountant,” he was notorious in his own right, operating criminal rackets from Miami to Las Vegas to Cuba. Perhaps no ...

“The idea that you have miles of Jewish stories that have yet to be told, that’s just irresistible to someone like me," he said. (JTA) — Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book ...

Now streaming on Amazon Prime, Lansky is a gangster drama lost somewhere among The Irishman, The Many Saints of Newark and, uh, Capone? Yeah, sure, Capone. It’s a BOATS (Based On A True Story) movie ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center when he asked if the center’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out to Los Angeles and drop by his office. The filmmaker doesn’t ...