A Medal of Freedom awarded to a notorious mobster by then-President Harry S. Truman is set to go to auction in California. The honor -- a forerunner to the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom -- ...

(JTA) — The way author Michael Benson tells it, one day in 1938, New York judge and Jewish communal leader Nathan Perlman sat at a bar and thought, “How come these Nazis get to march down 86th Street, ...

Meyer Lansky, gray eminence of organized crime, died of lung cancer at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach in 1983. By popular belief, never proved legally, Lansky taught the Mafia’s crude leadership ...

TAMPA — As a child, Gary Rapoport didn’t question why FBI agents regularly followed his grandfather Meyer Lansky. “We would go for a walk and could see across the street there were two guys,” he said.

In “Gangsters Vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America,” Michael Benson chronicles how Jewish leaders worked together with the likes of Meyer Lansky. (JTA) — The way author ...