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is JTA's Los Angeles correspondent. A veteran journalist, he also writes for the Jerusalem Post, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal and the London Jewish Chronicle.

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• Godard won’t come to L.A. to pick up Oscar

  October 26, 2010 12:00am

  Film director Jean-Luc Godard will not appear in person to accept an honorary Oscar that some have urged be withdrawn because of views deemed anti-Semitic.

• New design for tolerance museum unveiled

  October 19, 2010 4:23pm

  Architectural designs for a scaled-back Museum of Tolerance in the center of Jerusalem were unveiled by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

• Holocaust museum opens in L.A.

  October 17, 2010 4:37pm

  Los Angeles is the site of the United States’ newest Holocaust Museum.

• Israeli, Egyptian communities in L.A. come together

  October 10, 2010 4:26pm

  Israel’s consul general welcomed his new Egyptian counterpart during a ceremony at Los Angeles City Hall.

• UCLA opens endowed Israel studies center

  October 7, 2010 5:29pm

  UCLA formally inaugurated its endowed Center for Israel Studies, the first of its kind on the West Coast.

• Schwarzenegger vetoes railroad disclosure bill

  October 3, 2010 5:47pm

  California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill requiring companies bidding on the state’s high-speed rail contract to disclose their roles in transporting Jews to Nazi concentration camps.

• Jewish officer who arrested a drunk Gibson sues department over harassment

  September 12, 2010 4:18pm

  The Jewish sheriff’s deputy who arrested actor Mel Gibson for drunken driving is suing his department for harassment since the July 2006 incident.

• Calif. ballot proposal for divestment gathering signatures

  September 8, 2010 2:24pm

  A proposed ballot initiative in California would force the state’s two public employee pension funds to withdraw investments from companies that “support Israeli settlement or supply military products to the government of Israel.”

• Donors to call the shots in U.S.-Israeli science initiative

  September 8, 2010 2:17pm

  A joint American and Israeli foundation, and a California university are teaming for a program enabling donors to support their special scientific interests.

• Cantor documentary opens for one day at 500 theaters

  September 7, 2010 6:23pm

  A new documentary chronicling the journey of a group of American cantors to Poland will be screened simultaneously in nearly 500 movie theaters.