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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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• Leon Frankel, U.S. aviator who fought for nascent state of Israel, dies

  October 11, 2015 6:37am

  Frankel’s exploits for Israel were featured in the 2014 documentary film “Above and Beyond.”

• Rabbi Jacob Pressman, community and civil rights leader, dies

  October 4, 2015 3:39am

  The Los Angeles spiritual leader marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and helped launch the Save Soviet Jewry movement, and was a co-founder of the University of Judaism.

• ‘Labyrinth of Lies’ film explores Holocaust denial in postwar Germany

  October 1, 2015 12:58pm

  Germany’s official submission for the Oscars’ foreign-language category examines one man’s quest to bring former SS guards to justice in the 1960s.

• Calif. municipal worker forced to resign over anti-Semitic website

  September 13, 2015 5:14am

  A prolific blogger and contributor to several white supremacist publications, John Friend claimed that the Holocaust was made up by the “Jewish-dominated media.”

• Gerald Bubis, Jewish communal service pioneer, dies at 91

  August 23, 2015 7:01am

  Bubis established the School of Jewish Communal Service, now the Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management, at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s Los Angeles campus in 1968.

• Prominent L.A. Jews announce support for Iran deal

  August 13, 2015 2:54pm

  In a full-page Jewish Journal ad 98 signatories, identifying themselves as “American Jewish supporters of Israel,” said “killing the deal would be a tragic mistake.”

• L.A. racketeer tied to Israeli organized crime sentenced to 32 years

  August 2, 2015 6:21am

  Moshe Matsri, known as “Moshe the Religious,” had close ties with the Israel-based Abergil organized crime family, prosecutors said.

• Theodore Bikel, Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ dies at 91

  July 21, 2015 4:02pm

  The Vienna native played the role more than any other actor. He was also nominated for an Oscar and recorded Hebrew and Yiddish folk music.

• Pilot Louis Lenart, ‘The Man Who Saved Tel Aviv,’ dies at 94

  July 21, 2015 6:56am

  Lenart led an air attack with four airplanes on the Egyptian advance columns during Israel’s War of Independence, causing them to retreat.

• Spielberg sells Malibu property for $26 million

  July 20, 2015 6:18am

  Not to be outdone by Los Angeles, a New York City penthouse owned by the late comedian Joan Rivers sold for its asking price of $28 million.