Sentences with phrase «jewish mob»

It has more than 700 residents and the childhood home of David Berman, a Las Vegas gambling pioneer and Jewish mob boss.

It has more than 700 residents and the childhood home of David Berman, a Las Vegas gambling pioneer and Jewish mob boss.

Michael's storyline of how he got connected with the Russian Jewish mob and why he's estranged from his son's mother, Elena (Gal Gadot) would've been more than enough to carry the film on its own.

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (Grade: C --RRB-: Mel Gibson's arty, controversial chronicle of the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus Christ has turned out to be every bit as gory and contentious as its pre-release enemies feared: It's basically two hours of watching a guy we never really get to know as a character being tormented by a blood - thirsty Jewish mob and tortured by Roman sadists, interspersed with occasional, fortune - cookie sound - bites about «loving your neighbor» or whatever.

Outside the Tower of Antonia in Jerusalem the Jewish mob set upon Paul, intent on killing him.

Rather than being a Roman leader who could have been cowed into acceding to the wishes of Jewish priests and a Jewish mob, they depict a man who had no compunction killing troublesome Jews and with little respect for Jewish concerns.

From this promising premise, Gruber weaves an often humorous tale of conspiracy and mayhem containing every possible element we could wish to see in a pulse - pounding thriller - double - crossing Russian and Jewish mobs, a former thug turned Jesuit Priest, disgraced professors, kidnappings, lawyers getting beaten up, booze and sex, international models, canny antiquarian book dealers, armed heavies in all shapes and sizes, gun fights and car chases.

Not exact matches

We should not underestimate the capacity for public inscriptions to be unnoticed after their initial construction even by those that lived their lives surrounded by them (it is indicative of this that in the process of destroying Alexandrian Jewish prayer halls (39 CE), a mob of gentiles seeking to promote the worship of Caligula actually destroyed dedications to previous emperors).

Even if the mob, or any of them, uttered the frightful curse ascribed by Matthew to «all the people,» that would not make the Jewish people of that day guilty, to say nothing of later generations.

The series comes to a dramatic end with a fictional letter, written as though from St Petersburg, in which Chesterton's alter ego, «Guy Crawford», describes himself as joining a rebellious mob in which he recognises an obviously Jewish student called Emmanuel, and as springing to his defence, sword in hand, as the Czarist troops attack: but Emmanuel sustains a fatal blow and dies in the street, «a champion of justice, like thousands who have fallen for it in the dark records of this dark land».

The Roman government and the Jewish Pharisees of the time created Christianity to control the unruly mobs being instigated by the real, only human Jesus Christ.

The infamous Kristallnacht attack in Germany occurred when Nazi - supported mobs attacked Jewish people and destroyed their property on November 9 and 10, 1938.

As long as Christianity remained recognised by the State as a sect of Judaism (cf. Acts 18:14), the Church had only to fear mob violence and the limited powers of Jewish religious authorities.

The play, «Anne and Emmett,» imagines a meeting between Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who perished in the Holocaust, and Emmett Till, a young African - American boy who was killed by a white mob in the segregated south for allegedly whistling at a white woman.

Nickey (John Cassavetes) is a small - time Jewish gangster in trouble with the mob.