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Mike Burstyn takes to the stage in his one-man show, “Lansky,” and imagines the man who had quite the complicated relationship to Israel. Meyer Lansky, the notorious businessman and gangster tried to gain Israeli citizenship, live out his days in the Promised Land, and ultimately be buried next to his beloved grandfather in Jerusalem. Of course, he failed in this respect (in one of Israel’s more curious episodes), but it can still make for good theater.

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