The Yiddish Black Hand or the Jewish Black Hand Association was a criminal organization that operated on New York’s Lower East Side during the early 1900s, led by Jacob "Johnny" Levinsky … with Charles "Charley the Cripple" Vitoffsky and Joseph Toplinsky … By the end of 1913 … Levinsky [concentrated] on extortion in the ice … Continue reading Newsflash: Jewish Mobsters Corner Ice-cream and Seltzer Market!