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7	->''"I used to tell Lansky that he may've had a Jewish mother, but someplace he must've been wet-nursed by a Sicilian."''
8	-->-- '''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano Charles "Lucky" Luciano]]''' on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky Meyer Lansky]]
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10	The Mafia... [[RecycledInSpace but Jewish!!]]
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12	Organized crime needs some kind of criminal underclass in order to exist. Criminal underclasses need some kind of social underclass in order to exist. And one group, historically, has existed as a social underclass all over the world: the Jews. Jewish mobsters are every bit as nasty as the other kinds, with the addition that they might have [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish as a first language.]]
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14	In fiction, the Kosher Nostra are rare, probably because Jewish organized crime tends to be rolled into other, larger organized criminal groups. In truth, the Jewish community was often too small to be the single dominant organized mob, and Jewish mobsters often made strategic alliances with a larger group, often ending up serving as advisers and technicians. From about [[TheRoaringTwenties Prohibition]] to some time in the 1960s or 1970s, the main allies were [[TheMafia the Italians]]. Nowadays, the Jewish mob is mostly focused in Israeli or [[TheMafiya Russian mobs]] (and as such, are more likely to qualify as RuthlessForeignGangsters). Still, they tend to pop up often enough in early-mid 20th century {{period piece}}s, particularly in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles and pre-Castro UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}}. There's also an overlap with LondonGangster, as during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century many poor immigrants in London were Jewish, and several real-world London gang leaders of the era, like Isaac "Ikey" Solomon and Jack "Spot" Comer came from that background.
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16	Jewish gangsters are usually distinguished from other, more typical mobsters by [[TheEvilGenius focusing their intellect and business acumen]] on [[PragmaticVillainy the pragmatic]] pursuit of [[GreedyJew profit]] over more personal concerns. Some works may also juxtapose contrasting stereotypes of Jewish and mobster behavior. These characters, if not outright BadassIsraeli, may [[JewishComplaining kvetch]], [[JewsLoveToArgue argue]] and [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecate]] like a typical nebbishy Jew, but also display a surprising HairTriggerTemper and AxCrazy capacity for violence.
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18	Transparent NoCelebritiesWereHarmed versions of the most famous RealLife examples, such as Mickey Cohen, Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel, are particularly common (Lansky's friends joked that he behaved more "Italian" than most Italians). Historically, the Jewish Mob was a dominant force in the brief period between when White America started seeing Irishmen as "white" and the rise of the more numerous Italian Mob. During that period, they were involved in the regularization and "professionalization" of organized crime in the US, with the establishment of [[TheSyndicate The Commission]] (the Italian-American Mafia's coordination/dispute-resolution body) and MurderInc (organized, professional hitmen) being the brainchildren of Jewish mobsters (the Commission and Murder, Inc.'s parent organization, the National Crime Syndicate, were specifically Lansky's ideas).
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20	Compare TheMafia, TheMafiya, TheCartel, TheTriadsAndTheTongs, {{Yakuza}} and TheIrishMob.
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23	!!Examples:
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27	* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': Rock name drops the Kosher Nostra as one of the many gangs operating out of Roanapur alongside the Triads and Mafia. Though of all the major factions, they've never received focus in the story, although Benny, Lagoon Company's IT expert was said to be a Jew.
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31	* The first arc of Creator/DCComics book ''ComicBook/{{Caper}}'' by Creator/JuddWinick was about two brothers in the Jewish Mafia in turn of the century San Francisco.
32	* Several ''ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre'' stories feature Jewish gangsters, including the very first one.
33	* A ''Blackhawks'' mini-series in the 80s had Jewish gangsters aiding the heroes against Nazis.
34	* In the Argentine comic ''Savarese'' (focused on the FBI's fight against organized crime in the 1930s) by screenwriter Robin Wood, there is a story about the beautiful daughter of a Jewish gangster who falls in love with the son of an Italian gangster. His father is not happy, not only because he is the son of a rival, but because he believes that Italians are criminals by nature and tradition, he is a gangster, but he wants his children to be owners of legal businesses. In the end, the lovers end up running away like Romeo and Juliet,[[spoiler:but Juliet ends up murdering Romeo.]]
35	* In the horror comic ''Martin Hel'', also by Robin Wood, the protagonist has as a friend a French mafia boss who is Jewish, and dresses as a mix of a Hasidic Jew and a rabbi.
36	* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Dale and Stacey Yorkes, the token Jewish couple in The Pride, run a number of side hustles throughout history, using time travel to go back and forth through time to make collections from different eras. In the early 1900s, they ran a gang called the Deviant Ones in New York City.
37	* ''ComicBook/JewGangster'' is a graphic novel about Reuben "Ruby" Kaplan, a young Jewish man in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood during TheGreatDepression. Desperate to make a better life for himself, he falls in with a local mobster and begins his journey into the criminal underworld.
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41	* In ''Film/TheGodfather'', the character of Moe Greene in Part I is based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugsy_Siegel Bugsy Siegel]]. The character of Hyman Roth in Part II was based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky Meyer Lansky]].
42	* Meyer Lansky (played by Creator/DustinHoffman) is a bit player in Andy Garcia's film ''The Lost City''.
43	* ''Film/{{Bugsy}}'' about... well, Bugsy Siegel. Lansky is in this one too; understandable, given they were lifelong friends. Until Lansky [[OnlyICanKillHim ordered a hit on him]].
44	* Bugsy and Lansky also appear in ''Film/{{Mobsters}}'', with Lansky shown as Lucky Luciano's number two, and the brains of the team.
45	* In ''Film/BugsyMalone'', one of Fat Sam's lieutenants "Knuckles" is Jewish. PlayedForLaughs when he can't understand Sam speaking Italian and has to [[MediumAwareness read the subtitles]].
46	* Marty Augustine (Mark Rydell) is one of these in ''Film/TheLongGoodbye.''
47	* David Kleinfeld from ''Film/CarlitosWay'' is a Jewish AmoralAttorney of the mob who willingly decides to go down a FromNobodyToNightmare route when he gets in trouble for stealing the payoff money of a Mafia boss.
48	* In ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', the characters make several references to the involvement of Jews in the diamond trade. There are several crooked Jewish gangsters mixed up in it: Frankie Four Fingers, TheGamblingAddict and the man responsible for stealing a diamond and kick-starting the plot: Avi, his foul-mouthed and incompetent boss: Rosebud, Avi's DumbMuscle: and Doug the Head, a pawnbroker of stolen jewelry, though in Doug's case, he isn't actually Jewish, but acts like it because Jews are the dominant force in the gemstone trade.
49	* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica'': Max, Noodles, Patsy, Cockeye, and Bugsy are Jewish, in full accordance with ''The Hoods'', the novel that served as a source for adaptation. In particular, the character of Maximilian "Max" Bercovicz was inspired by Lansky, and David "Noodles" Aaronson was at least partially based on the author of the novel himself - Harry Grey, born Herschel Goldberg in Odessa (now Ukraine; according to the novel, Noodles' family is from Odessa as well), who used to work for Frank Costello. However, Bugsy is entirely absent from the novel and has little in common with Bugsy Siegel apart from both being Jewish American gangsters known by the nickname of, well, Bugsy.
50	* Dutch Schultz in ''Film/{{Hoodlum}}''.
51	* ''Film/LuckyNumberSlevin'' features a boss named The Rabbi. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Because he's a Rabbi]]. Several of his enforcers are [[BadassIsraeli ex-Mossad.]] On first meeting the Rabbi, Slevin asks how he reconciles being a rabbi with the shotgun he's holding. The Rabbi answers that killing Slevin in "self-defense" would be acceptable, as far as the religious texts are concerned.
52	* ''Film/LeGrandPardon'' is basically a French and Jewish Pied-Noir version of ''Film/TheGodfather''.
53	* Sam "Ace" Rothstein in ''Film/{{Casino}}'', a crooked Jewish casino mogul with ties to the mob. He's based on Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal.
54	* Nino and Bernie in ''Film/Drive2011'' are Jewish gangsters. Nino sets the events of the film in motion with his plan to rip off the Italian Mafia.
55	* ''Film/EightMenOut'' is about the 1919 White Sox scandal. It features Arnold Rothstein and a few minor gangsters under his employ.
56	* ''Film/LittleOdessa'' is about Jewish Russian mobsters in Brighton Beach.
57	* In ''Film/LAConfidential'', Mickey Cohen's arrest and fall from power in the opening serves as the instigator of the plot as the criminals of the city try to fill the EvilPowerVacuum.
58	* Cohen is also the main antagonist in ''Film/GangsterSquad''.
59	* Creator/RobertDeNiro's character in ''Film/AmericanHustle'' is Italian, but he's said to be the right-hand man of a never-seen Meyer Lansky.
60	* In the 2016 Creator/WoodyAllen offering, ''Film/CafeSociety'', the protagonist's brother is a Jewish-American gangster.
61	* ''Film/TheGreatGatsby1974'' features the character Meyer Wolfsheim, from the original book. He's a Jewish gangster based on Arnold Rothstein who wears human molars as cufflinks.
62	* Wolfsheim also features in 2013's ''Film/{{The Great Gatsby\|2013}}'', this time played by Indian actor Creator/AmitabhBachchan, adding a layer of AmbiguouslyBrown.
63	* Creator/TonyCurtis played the title role of ''Film/{{Lepke}}'', a biopic of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, a Jewish-American mobster who with Albert Anastasia was one of the founders of the Mafia hit squad later known as Murder Inc.
64	* 1960 film Murder, Inc. features Creator/PeterFalk in an early role as Jewish hitman Abe Reles.
65	* In ''Film/HolyRollers'', Sam Gold (Creator/JesseEisenberg) is a Hasidic Jew who is recruited as a mule to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.
66	* RealLife LondonGangster Jack Spot is the protagonist of Film/OnceUponATimeInLondon.
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70	* ''Literature/TheYiddishPolicemensUnion'' takes place in an {{alternate history}} where Jews settled in an Alaskan city after Israel lost in the Independence War. There's plenty of crime and intrigue in the almost exclusively Jewish metropolis. The most notable criminal organization is an ultra-Orthodox religious sect called the Verboven. The sect's head rabbi is TheDon.
71	* In ''Literature/AConspiracyOfPaper'', one of the characters is Abraham Mendes, a historical figure, who in reality, as in the novels, is the chief lieutenant of the gangster Jonathan Wild. The novels have a definite {{hardboiled detective}} feel (despite the 18th-century setting), and likewise, Mendes fits a lot of the 20th century (Jewish) gangster stereotypes. He's a violent thug in professional life, but when not engaged in crime, is [[AffablyEvil a pleasant man]] who [[ChurchgoingVillain goes to synagogue regularly]]. He also fits the erratic temper part. The second novel shows him to be an animal lover, and he brutally attacks someone who had harmed a dog.
72	* The gangsters in Shea and Wilson's ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' trilogy are used to confound the expectation that all American gangsters are or were Italian-American. "Dutch Schultz" and Weissmann are clearly Jewish.
73	* ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' has Gatsby's shady business partner Meyer Wolfsheim, who is a pretty obvious NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Arnold Rothstein, right down to "rumored to have fixed the 1919 World Series".
74	* EL Doctorow's ''Billy Bathgate'' is about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Schultz Dutch Schultz]], real life Jewish mobster. (Played by Creator/DustinHoffman in TheFilmOfTheBook).
75	* Fictional UrExample: [[TheFagin Fagin]] in ''Literature/OliverTwist''. Believed to have been inspired by real Jewish LondonGangster [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikey_Solomon Isaac "Ikey" Solomon]].
76	* ''Literature/TheGodfather'': In the original novel, Don Vincent Forlenza, Don of the Cleveland family, earned his organization the nickname of "the Jewish mob" by surrounding himself with Jewish associates.
77	* The kingpin of '50s Los Angeles, Mickey Cohen, plays a prominent role in ''Literature/LAConfidential''.
78	* In the Creator/AndrewVachss Burke book ''Mask Market'' [[spoiler: what initially seem to be TheMafiya turn out to be these.]]
79	* The Russian-Jewish author Isaac Babel wrote a series of picaresque stories called "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odessa_Tales The Odessa Tales]]", set in the Jewish underworld of Odessa in the early 20th century. The stories revolve around the bandit "King" Benya Krik, who is somewhat based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishka_Yaponchik Mishka Yaponchik]], including an ultimate violent end/status as a Revolutionary hero.
80	* ''Literature/ThePower'' has the Monke family, a Jewish crime family in the UK. Once women start developing the titular power to [[ShockAndAwe shoot electricity from their hands]], the MafiaPrincess Roxanne "Roxy" Monke rises up to take over the family, forging ties to Allie/Mother Eve's religious organization and distributing a FantasticDrug that amplifies women's electrical power (which [[LadyLand Bessapara]] uses to create an army of female {{supersoldier}}s) while pushing her [[TheDon crime boss]] father Bernie into early retirement [[spoiler:after finding out that he had her mother killed]]. One unfortunate side effect of Roxy's power in the criminal underworld is that it provides fodder for anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists, who claim that the Jews were responsible for women developing electrical powers as part of a plot to destroy Christianity and enslave men.
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84	* Jewish gangsters feature prominently in ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire''. Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Seigel, and Waxy Gordon are all characters of varying importance. Manny Horvitz is a [[OriginalCharacter (fictional)]] kosher butcher who is vying with Gordon over control of Philadelphia. One of few works of fiction to address Rothstein's poker habit, which eventually put him in debt [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter to a better gambler]], who had him murdered in 1928.
85	* ''Series/TheLifeAndAdventuresOfMishkaYaponchik'' was a Russian TV Series about one prominent Russian-Jewish gangster from Odessa. The later-famous Red commander Kotovsky was also a gang member and there was a TV series produced about him.
86	* ''Series/TheWestWing'': Toby's father, Julie, was a [[ProfessionalKiller hitman]] for MurderInc. He justifies his past work as both [[PunchClockVillain providing for his family]] and only [[PayEvilUntoEvil affecting fellow criminals]]. Though Julie served time for his crimes and later had a normal career making ladies' raincoats, Toby has long resented him, both for his criminal acts and the emotional distance the family suffered by his job and time in prison.
87	* ''Series/TheSopranos'' had Hesh Rabkin, Jewish music producer who did business with the show's Italian mafia. He may have been based on music mogul [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Levy Morris "Mo" Levy]], a real-life Jewish producer with mafia ties.
88	* ''Series/{{Oz}}'' features Nikolai Stanislofsky, a Russian Jewish gangster.
89	* Also from HBO, ''Series/{{Rome}}'' has Timon[=/=]Tevye, a bodyguard working for gentile Romans in an OlderThanFeudalism example.
90	* In ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', Bobby Elvis is a Jewish member of the gun-running Sons of Anarchy motorcycle club. He moonlights as an Elvis impersonator for bar mitzvahs and such. His father was a bookie for the mob; he does the books for the motorcycle club and some of their other businesses. When he leaves the club and a couple of other members struggle with the bookkeeping, one of them sighs, "We need to patch in another Jew."
91	* Michael Weston has run into the modern version of these guys once or twice on ''Series/BurnNotice'', the most notable case being the Zamar family from season 1. The Zamar patriarch is an ex-Mossad officer who has turned ArmsDealer and is teaching the trade to his sons as well.
92	* ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' has Alfie Solomons (played by Creator/TomHardy) and his gang, based in London's Camden Town neighbourhood and operating a sizable brewing operation. Uncharacteristic for the trope, Alfie and his gang are noticeably blue-collar, with Alfie sporting a thick cockney accent. The London underworld has (or had) a strong Jewish influence in real life, and the character's name was taken from a real Jewish gangster whose name appeared many times in court transcripts during the era.
93	* ''Series/CrimeStory'' had another Lansky {{Expy}} in the form of Manny Weisboard. His protege and representative with the Italian mob was Max Goldman.
94	* ''Series/DowntownPrecinct'', an Israeli PoliceProcedural, showcases cops going up against Jewish gangs.
95	* Season 2 of ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' features the AmbiguouslyJewish Kansas City mob, which features a number of gangsters who occasionally spout Yiddish, have a very dim view of Germans, and are played by very Jewish actors.
96	** The beginning of Season 4 offers a potted history of the city's organised crime:
97	--->''1900: Kansas City, Missouri. In the beginning were the Hebrews, and they ran the underworld...''
98	* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': One Jewish mob boss is among those that Wilson Fisk has his crooked FBI agents round up for a parley so he can extort protection money from them.
99	* ''Series/ThePlotAgainstAmerica'': Jewish gangs are still pretty powerful in the 1940s. The local New Jersey outfit is led by Waxy Gordon.
100	* ''Series/PennyDreadfulCityOfAngels'': After he stumbles upon the Nazi presence in LA, Lewis calls in local gangster Benny Berman, namedropping both MurderInc and [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Meyer]] [[TheConsigliere Lansky]] as people Berman works for/with.
101	* ''Series/SWAT2017'': In "[[Recap/SWATS02E06NeverAgain Never Again]]" the targets of the diamond robbers are an Israeli criminal syndicate that is operating in both the US and Israel.
102	* ''Series/ThePower2023'': The Monkes are a Jewish crime family operating in London. Roxy wants to be a part of it, but Bernie, her dad who's the boss, resists this.
103	* One faction of the two warring ecstasy rings in Season 5 of ''Series/ThirdWatch'' was made up of Hassidic Jews who operated out of a front called Finklestein Silver & Diamonds.
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107	* ''Videogame/LANoire'' has a couple of these, as you might guess from the page quote. The first is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Cohen Mickey Cohen]], based on the real-life gangster who was something of a celebrity in L.A. during the '40s and '50s. The second is Lenny Finklestein, a drug dealer [[spoiler: whom you wind up killing while investigating morphine trafficking]].
108	* The 3rd Street Saints in ''Videogame/SaintsRow'' might be channeling the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_gang Purple Gang]], a prohibition-era crew of alcohol runners. Like the old Gang, The Saints all wear purple, the default car is "The Bootlegger," and they're known for openly violent crimes and intra-gang violence.
109	* Subverted in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' with Ken Rosenberg, the neurotic manager of a mob-run casino. He couldn't harm anyone if he tried, has a cocaine addiction, lives in constant fear that he's going to be killed... and as a result, no one takes him seriously, especially not his bosses.
110	* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' has the Jewish Mob responsible for the diamond deal that serves as the focus of a major subplot. The boss and his right-hand man (Isaac Roth and Mori Green, respectively) are [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to the famous ''Godfather'' characters.
111	* The BigBad of ''Videogame/TheShivah'' is one of these, running a small LoanShark racket out of a synagogue on the western side of Manhattan and allied with more traditional mafioso. The surprising part is that [[spoiler: he's the rabbi of the synagogue.]]
112	* TheMafiya group featured in ''VideoGame/WatchDogs2'' has many Russian-Jewish members, putting them into conflict with the local white supremacist biker gang.
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116	* ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'': Mordecai Heller, who looks more like an accountant than the most cold-blooded hitman in St. Louis.[[note]]That's because he ''is'' an accountant. An accountant ''and'' the most cold-blooded hitman in St. Louis. With OCD to boot.[[/note]]
117	* The Blutenstein clan in ''Webcomic/{{DocRat}}'' has shades of this, being a family with a seemingly Jewish last name and a great deal of influence and no qualms about kidnapping and hogtying members of rival clans.
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121	* Zalmie Belinksy in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanPop''.
122	* The Penguin in ''WesternAnimation/{{Harley Quinn\|2019}}'' is revealed to be Jewish when he treats his nephew to a lavish bar mitzvah, stating it was at his own bar mitzvah that he decided to become a crime boss, and hopes his nephew will follow in his footsteps.
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126	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purple_Gang The Purple Gang]] were probably the most well-known example from the Roaring Twenties. They controlled bootlegging and union extortion in {{UsefulNotes/Detroit}}, and were [[TheDreaded so feared]] that even UsefulNotes/AlCapone didn't dare mess with them, instead forming a partnership to distribute the Canadian liquor they imported into Chicago, which just goes to show that [[{{Memes/Advertising}} you don't have to be Jewish]] [[{{Pun}} to love real Jewish rye]]. But by 1931, the Purple Gang's fortunes dwindled as [[JewsLoveToArgue years of infighting]] (with three of their top members killed off for challenging the leadership) and a brief war with UsefulNotes/TheMafia decimated them. Also, police found it easier to trace crimes to the gang because its members attracted too much heat. The gang continued in a weakened capacity for a few years before the Italians took over the Detroit underworld.
127	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_mafia Israeli organized crime gangs]].
128	* The real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder,_Inc Murder Inc]]. was a gang of Jewish and Italian hitmen in the 1930s who acted as enforcers for the New York underworld.
129	* London, like New York, had its own Jewish population during the late nineteenth and early 20th century, which gave rise to local Jewish gangs. The Jewish influence is still echoed in a few Yiddish words that percolated into the criminal argot, such as "keep ''schtum''," meaning "keep quiet." One of the most famous Jewish {{London Gangster}}s of the period was Isaac "Ikey" Solomon, rumoured to have been the original inspiration Creator/CharlesDickens used for [[TheFagin Fagin]] in ''Literature/OliverTwist''.
130	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Silver Joseph Silver]], notorious Johannesburg gangster at the turn of the twentieth century, who was alleged by one subsequent biography to have been UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
131	* A [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/10/drugsandalcohol.uk Hassidic gang smuggled drugs]], which was the inspiration for ''Film/HolyRollers''.
132	* Creator/EdwardGRobinson (born Emmanuel Goldenberg) was a Jewish actor best known for playing tough guy mobsters in [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood Golden Age Hollywood]] movies like ''Film/LittleCaesar'' and ''Film/KeyLargo'', although most of his characters were implied to be Italian-American.
133	* In 2013-2015, a group of Hasidic men led by Mendel Epstein were arrested for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_divorce_coercion_gang kidnapping and torturing]] other Hasidic men to force them to grant their wives a ''gittin'' (divorce).
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