Movies
Richard Dreyfuss didn’t automatically condemn the gangster he plays in ‘Lansky’--in fact, he grew to like him.
Feb. 21, 1999
Meyer Lansky--the underworld financial genius who parlayed six decades of loan sharking, gambling, prostitution and murder into a $300-million fortune--had acquired the status of a living legend when he was deported from his retirement refuge in Israel in 1972 and returned, a haggard and tired man, to face arrest in Miami.
March 19, 1989
Entertainment & Arts
Meyer Lansky. When you heard the name, you shivered.
Nov. 10, 1991
Well, it finally happened!
Feb. 28, 1999
Books
In his new novel ‘I Pity the Poor Immigrant,’ Zachary Lazar uses gangster Meyer Lansky as a springboard in his look at the relationships between fathers and sons, violence’s legacy and Israel.
April 4, 2014
Television
A mensch of a mobster.
Feb. 26, 1999
Watch L.A.
Nov. 23, 2021
Zachary Lazar searches for meaning in ‘I Pity the Poor Immigrant’
Richard Dreyfuss, Whoopi Goldberg, Burt Reynolds and Donald Sutherland are among the stars featured in movies this weekend.
Feb. 25, 1999
Food
For years, Jews living on Manhattan’s Lower East Side made a regular pilgrimage to Ratner’s for its home-style pirogen, blintzes, gefilte fish, matzo brie, baskets of freshly baked onion rolls and notoriously surly wait service.
Aug. 4, 2002