Gangsters!

A wanted poster for Jewish gangster Louis "Lepke" Buchalter

If you read the book Confronting Scandal as a part of Rabbi Fox's class last semester, you'll remember the conversation about the phenomenon of Jewish gangsters as an expression of Jewish power (in the vein of the "New Jew") and the tacit approval of their illicit actions given the protection they provided the whole New York Jewish community from anti-Semitism.

I'm attaching a link to a clip from "Boardwalk Empire" that depicts the Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky and "Nucky" Thompson (played by Steve Buscemi). Note the connections between Lansky and prohibition-era bootlegging, the heroin business, and a belief in God.
NSFW for violence and language.