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Jacob Gurvis

Jacob Gurvis

Jacob Gurvis is JTA’s Audience Engagement Editor, based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Boston University, where he studied journalism, Jewish studies, and political science. Jacob has written for The Boston Globe and The Beverly Hills Courier, and he produced an award-winning sports talk show in college. He spends too much time on Twitter @jacobgurvis.

The new "Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital" exhibit opens Sunday at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (Photo/JTA-Josh White, JWPictures-Academy Museum Foundation)
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L.A.’s Academy Museum initially excluded Hollywood’s Jewish origins. A new exhibit on Jewish film pioneers fixes that.

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis May 17, 2024May 21, 2024
Television and newspaper reporters in Los Angeles interview passersby in the Jewish neighborhood of Pico-Robertson following two shootings that occurred in the area in the previous two days on Feb. 17, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Asaf Elia-Shalev)
Posted inCalifornia

Suspect in 2023 shootings of Jewish men in L.A.’s Pico-Robertson will plead guilty

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis May 15, 2024
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters clash during violence at an encampment at UCLA early in the morning of May 1, 2024. (Photo/JTA-Wally Skalij-Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

At UCLA, where police are clearing encampment, Jews on campus say pro-Israel violence has undercut them

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis May 2, 2024August 14, 2024
Clockwise from top left: Zack Gelof, Alex Bregman, Joc Pederson, Rowdy Tellez, Max Fried, Garrett Stubbs and Dean Kremer. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images; Design by Mollie Suss)
Posted inSports

All the Jewish MLB players to watch in 2024, including Zack Gelof of the A’s

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis March 27, 2024March 29, 2024
Steven Spielberg speaks at a ceremony at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, March 25, 2024. (Photo/JTA-USC-Sean Dube)
Posted inCulture

Steven Spielberg decries ‘machinery of extremism’ on college campuses

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis March 26, 2024March 26, 2024
Montreal Canadiens defenseman Jordan Harris skates with the puck during a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Feb. 22, 2024 (Photo/JTA-Jeanine Leech-Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Posted inSports

Black Jewish NHL player Jordan Harris wants to diversify hockey

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis March 8, 2024
El Cajon, California, Mayor Bill Wells speaks at a vigil in memory of Dr. Benjamin Harouni, a Jewish dentist who was murdered at his practice on Feb. 29, 2024, in El Cajon, March 3, 2024. (Screenshot from video via JTA)
Posted inCalifornia

Calls mount to investigate antisemitism in killing of San Diego Jewish dentist Benjamin Harouni

Ben SalesPhilissa CramerJacob Gurvis by Ben Sales, Philissa Cramer and Jacob Gurvis March 5, 2024
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters faced off outside a planned speech by Ran Bar-Yoshafat, the Israeli reservist and advocate whose speech at the University of California, Berkeley, was derailed, Los Angeles, Feb. 29, 2024. (Photo/JTA-Jacob Gurvis)
Posted inBay Area

Israeli speaker whose Berkeley event was canceled amid violence draws protest at LA Holocaust Museum speech

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis March 1, 2024
Jared Armstrong, center, is running free basketball clinics for children in Ashkelon, Israel. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Armstrong)
Posted inSports

Basketball player Jared Armstrong offers clinics to Israeli children impacted by war

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis February 23, 2024February 23, 2024
Members of a conversion program in New York City on Dec. 21, 2023. Jasamine Hodge is seated in the center in a white sweater, with her fiancé Adir standing to her left. Seated on the right are Rabbis Adam Mintz and Avram Mlotek. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Hodge)
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‘I just felt this urgency’: For some, Oct. 7 fueled a renewed dedication to becoming Jewish

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis January 10, 2024

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