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Rob Long: Hollywood Writer Talks Trump

David Suissa July 18, 2018

Salvador Litvak: Can Talmud change your life?

David Suissa June 21, 2018

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

Jewish Journal August 9, 2011

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.

Iranian Jews struggle with segregation, presumption and assimilation

Tom Tugend February 22, 2007

There is no demographic study of the Iranian Jewish community in Los Angeles, although its size is generally given as 30,000, including the American-born children of the original immigrants.

Peers give Orthodox teens lesson in drug use and abuse

Julie Gruenbaum Fax February 16, 2007

For many years, at-risk behavior and drug use among yeshiva high school students has been an open secret, but only in recent years have kids and their families had anywhere to turn.

Los Angeles mom pleads for life of son kidnapped in Iran

Karmel Melamed December 21, 2006

\”Why is the world so silent — why are Jews so silent about the plight of Jews being held captive in Iran?\” Elana Tehrani, an Iranian-born Jewish woman now living in Los Angeles asked a crowd during a speech at the Nessah Cultural Center in Beverly Hills.