(Los Angeles Times) Rachel Abramowitz - A nascent effort, spearheaded by a mostly younger group of rising players, is trying to challenge the status quo and galvanize Hollywood's powerful communication machine in support of Israel. Unofficially spearheaded by Dan Adler, a 39-year-old Creative Artists agent, the effort, dubbed Project Communicate, this fall will launch a marketing push on college campuses. The idea is "to create defenders and advocates of Israel," says Adler, the son of a Holocaust survivor whose group is trying to navigate Hollywood's political divisions by adopting a non-ideological stance. "We're trying to be pro-humanity and pro-solution, rather than simply pro-Israel," he says.
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