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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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• Oscar-nominated ‘Omar’ portrays Israelis in harsh light

  February 24, 2014 2:33pm

  Hany Abu-Assad’s film focuses on a Palestinian whose life is thrown into turmoil after a friend murders an Israeli soldier.

• When Claude Lanzmann turned his lens on a rabbi who answered to Eichmann

  February 14, 2014 2:37pm

  “The Last of the Unjust” looks at Benjamin Murmelstein, the last president of the Judenrat in the Theresienstadt ghetto.

• Alice Herz-Sommer, world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, takes center stage in Oscar-nominated doc

  February 13, 2014 4:22pm

  “The Lady in Number 6″ tells the story of a 110-year-old pianist whose musical gifts proved to be her salvation.

• Harvey Fields, longtime rabbi at L.A. temple, dies

  January 26, 2014 12:01pm

  Rabbi Harvey Fields, senior rabbi at the historic Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles for 23 years, has died.

• Jewish ne’er-do-wells fare well in Oscar nominations

  January 16, 2014 2:24pm

  Thursday’s Oscar nominations proved to be a bonanza for Jewish con men.

• Israeli entry out, Palestine entry still in Oscar race

  December 22, 2013 6:36am

  Israel is out and Palestine is still in the Oscar race, following the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announcement of nine semi-finalists in the best foreign-language film category.

• Kabbalah Centre sued by former followers

  December 5, 2013 6:36am

  The Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre is being sued for over $1 million by former followers.

• Crime boss Itzhak Abergil heading back to jail in native Israel

  November 21, 2013 6:33am

  Jailed Israeli crime boss Itzhak Abergil will be extradited from the United States to Israel to serve the remaining nine years of a 10-year sentence.

• Austria honoring Vienna native Theodore Bikel at Kristallnacht commemoration

  November 6, 2013 3:46pm

  Theodore Bikel, who fled the Nazi occupation of his native Vienna for prestate Israel, will be honored by the Austrian government on the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht.

• UC-Berkeley starting Jewish studies center

  October 16, 2013 3:22pm

  The University of California, Berkeley is launching a Center for Jewish Studies.