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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his 80 years, Meyer Lansky worked alongside the most notorious gangsters in American history. He spearheaded a worldwide ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The daughter sits on the front porch of a little bungalow in Seminole Heights, her new home since her husband died a few months ago down south. She misses him, but she’s making do.

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 ...

“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 ...