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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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• Israeli Oscar entry eliminated from contention, one more still in play

  December 21, 2012 5:33pm

  Israel’s 2012 Academy Award entry failed to make the list of nine semi-finalists among foreign-language films.

• UC Irvine rejects divestment push

  November 16, 2012 3:47pm

  Campus administrators at the University of California, Irvine rejected a resolution by the undergraduate student council calling for divestment from companies that “profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestine.”

• Carmen Warschaw, Calif. Democratic leader and philanthropist, dies

  November 8, 2012 11:55am

  Carmen Warschaw, a national and California state Democratic leader and philanthropist, has died.

• On Israel Philharmonic’s whirlwind U.S. tour, a N.Y. debut for Israeli’s symphony

  October 23, 2012 4:34pm

  Led by Zubin Mehta, its music director for life, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will play four concerts in five nights starting with the famed Carnegie Hall, where a work by Israeli composer and conductor Noam Sheriff will make its New York premiere.

• Director of anti-Muslim movie that sparked attacks on U.S. facilities not Israeli

  September 12, 2012 6:28pm

  The director of an anti-Islam film that helped spark attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities that left the U.S. envoy to Libya dead is not Israeli as he claimed, a consultant to the film said.

• Brussels mayor apologizes for ’42 deportations but ‘won’t pass judgment’

  September 3, 2012 9:24pm

  The mayor of Brussels apologized to the Jewish community for the municipality’s Holocaust-era “role” in deporting Jews, but added he would “not pass judgment.”

• Rabbi David Wolpe to deliver benediction to Democrats

  September 2, 2012 7:07pm

  Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles will deliver the benediction at a session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

• In Hollywood’s ‘The Possession,’ the dybbuk is back

  August 29, 2012 6:32pm

  Kyra Sedgwick and Matisyahu bring the mystical Jewish character back to the big screen.

• JDL vice chairman’s suicide continues chain of violent deaths

  August 17, 2012 7:58pm

  Ari Ephraim Rubin, vice chairman of the Jewish Defense League, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on July 20.

• Six decades later, fibbing ex-flying ace really sees the London Olympics

  August 3, 2012 1:41pm

  Mitchell Flint, a former American fighter pilot in London to see the Olympics, recalls a 1948 visit to the British capital and his ruse to help Israel fight its War of Independence.