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  • Benjamin ‘Dopey Benny’ Fein, 1942
    Benjamin ‘Dopey Benny’ Fein, 1942
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    The Gangster Who Defended the Unions—With a Lead Pipe

    ‘My heart lay with the workers,’ said ‘Dopey Benny’ Fein, expert organizer and ‘shtarker’ of the Lower East Side

    byAllan Levine
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    The Horse-Poisoning Jewish Gangsters of the Lower East Side

    An ugly New York City extortion racket at the turn of the last century

    byMarjorie Ingall
  • Scene from Season 5, Episode 7 of 'Boardwalk Empire.' (HBO)
    Scene from Season 5, Episode 7 of 'Boardwalk Empire.' (HBO)
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    Yiddish and Mezuzot on ‘Boardwalk Empire’

    How the Prohibition-era HBO show portrays its Jewish gangsters

    byAlexander Aciman
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    Why Gangsters Who Broke Every Law Still Went to Services on Yom Kippur

    They stole. They murdered. But many Jewish mobsters still saw religious observance as an integral part of their identity.

    byRobert Rockaway
  • (All photos Zachary Lazar)
    (All photos Zachary Lazar)
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    Meyer Lansky’s Ghost Haunts My Visit to Miami Beach

    Before writing a novel about the gangster’s immigrant yearnings, I went digging in the dark corners where he lived

    byZachary Lazar
  • Shchunat Hatikvah(Antonin Kratochvil)
    Shchunat Hatikvah(Antonin Kratochvil)
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    Holy Land Gangland, Part V

    The conclusion of our weeklong series on the world of the Israeli mafia

    byDouglas Century
  • (Antonin Kratochvil)
    (Antonin Kratochvil)
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    Holy Land Gangland, Part IV

    A Tablet investigative series looks inside the world of the Israeli mafia

    byDouglas Century
  • An Israeli policeman carries a blood-stained stretcher through the scene of an explosion in a foreign currency exchange shop December 11, 2003 in Tel Aviv, Israel. At least two people were killed and twelve were injured in the blast which police believe to be an attempt on the life of Israeli criminal boss Zeev Rosenstein.(Getty Images)
    An Israeli policeman carries a blood-stained stretcher through the scene of an explosion in a foreign currency exchange shop December 11, 2003 in Tel Aviv, Israel. At least two people were killed and twelve were injured in the blast which police believe to be an attempt on the life of Israeli criminal boss Zeev Rosenstein.(Getty Images)
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    Holy Land Gangland

    A Tablet investigative series looks inside the world of the Israeli mafia

    byDouglas Century
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