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August 9, 2011

Baby’s parents looking for hope, help and a miracle

Baby Leah tenses and contorts in her crib at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA. A visit to her in the room requires suiting up in a gown, gloves and mask to ensure she doesn’t become sick in her fragile state. Zev and Frani Esquenazi’s little girl, who is named for Princess Leia from the “Star Wars” films, has received multiple spinal taps, MRIs and EEGs, and is breathing through her trachea. Her movements are erratic.

Downtown’s Jewish L.A.ndmarks

“When I came, Los Angeles was a sleepy, ambitionless adobe village with very little promise for the future…

Schnitzel gets its due

Schnitzly is the purveyor of perhaps the least-heralded Jewish food around — chicken coated in breadcrumbs.

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