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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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• Judea Pearl, father of slain WSJ reporter, is a leader in artificial intelligence

  December 27, 2011 5:22pm

  Judea Pearl, the father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, is known as a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence. A $75,000 prize from the Technion is just the latest plaudit to a distinguished scientific career.

• Allen, Spielberg grab Golden Globe nominations

  December 18, 2011 1:53pm

  Famed directors Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg led the list of Jewish nominees for Golden Globe Awards.

• New Yorkers producing film on Israel’s Six-Day War victory

  December 15, 2011 9:06pm

  Attorneys Joseph Schick and Jacob Septimus are forging ahead with an action-heavy film made in Israel on the Jewish state’s June 1967 victory over Arab armies.

• Heller letter claims Yossarian of ‘Catch-22′ not Jewish

  December 6, 2011 1:52pm

  Yossarian, the central character in Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22,” was not Jewish, the author wrote in a 40-year-old letter.

• Two films to portray Avner book ‘The Prime Ministers’

  November 17, 2011 8:50pm

  Two American producer-directors, on opposite coasts, are in the process of turning Yehuda Avner’s book “The Prime Ministers” into separate films.

• Rare collection of Nazi documents donated to L.A. Holocaust museum

  November 15, 2011 6:55pm

  A rare collection of stamps, letters, ID cards and other documents of the Nazi era was donated to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.

• ‘Funny Girl’ revival is canceled

  November 6, 2011 12:50pm

  Fanny Brice would have blown her top at the news: The revival of “Funny Girl,” based on the life of the old trooper, was canceled.

• Gil Cates, acclaimed producer and director, dies at 77

  November 2, 2011 11:08am

  Gilbert (“Gil”) Cates, a multifaceted theater, film and television producer and director, as well as a university dean, has died.

• Norman Corwin, ‘radio’s poet laureate,’ dies at 101

  October 23, 2011 3:44pm

  Norman Corwin, whose soaring plays gave luster to the golden age of radio in the 1930s and 1940s, has died at 101.

• Buyer of Einstein letter came late to bidding

  October 18, 2011 5:52pm

  The “anonymous” buyer of a historic letter written by Albert Einstein — E. Randol “Randy” Schoenberg, president of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust — entered the bidding a day before it closed.