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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
  • Boesky’s delicatessen on 12th and Hazelwood in Detroit, Nov. 24, 1937, after the fatal shooting of gangster Harry Millman; “Millman’s death signaled the end of the Purple Gang as a force in organized crime in Detroit.” From Robert A. Rockaway in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 20.1 (2001) 113-130(The Detroit News via Virtual Motor City collection, Wayne State University Library.)
    Boesky’s delicatessen on 12th and Hazelwood in Detroit, Nov. 24, 1937, after the fatal shooting of gangster Harry Millman; “Millman’s death signaled the end of the Purple Gang as a force in organized crime in Detroit.” From Robert A. Rockaway in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 20.1 (2001) 113-130(The Detroit News via Virtual Motor City collection, Wayne State University Library.)
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    A Mobster in the Family

    My husband’s great-uncle was generous and entertaining—and a member of Detroit’s Jewish crime syndicate

    byNaomi Sandweiss
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