My father, Chaplain Rabbi Abraham Avrech, z’l (1919-2014) U.S. Army, 42nd Div., Colonel, Ret., conducts services during the Korean War.
On Memorial Day, we remember all the members of our armed services who paid the ultimate price in service to this great country.
Our eternal gratitude.
“I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.”
—Katherine Hepburn
Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT’L
You are all invited to the Fifteenth Annual Ariel Avrech ZT’L Memorial Lecture that will take place Sunday, June 10, 2018, at 10 AM, followed by brunch.
Location: Young Israel of Century City
9317 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90035
For those unable to attend the lecture will be posted here at Seraphic Secret.
Karen and I are delighted to announce that our good friend Jackie Danicki will deliver this year’s lecture:
“Confessions of a Convert: A Humbling, Joyful Journey to Judaism.”
In America, there’s a card more valuable than any card from Visa or American Express. What is it? How can you get one? Candace Owens, Communications Director for Turning Point USA, answers these questions.
Ann Miller, c.1944
“There’s definitely a place for real glamour – and a real woman must be in her late 30’s or early 40’s because the young ones haven’t the foggiest idea what it’s all about.”
—Ann Miller in 1971
This was the cover of the NY Daily News for Tuesday, May 15, 2018.
The IslamoNazis who call themselves Palestinians and who live in the IslamoNazi/Palestinian state of Gaza, ruled by Hamas, a terrorists gang, have been organizing violent riots on Israel’s border for the past few weeks.
The ostensible purpose of the riots is the march to return.
Return meaning to the state of Israel.
Do you remember how the left told us that anti-Semitism was resurgent in America because of President Trump’s election?
Funny how the left always projects its own ideological pathologies on Conservatives.
“It’s no use talking to me about art, I make pictures to pay the rent.“
—John Ford
J.E. Dyer’s annotated map depicting Israeli strikes against Iranian assets in Syria.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s relationship with Vladimir Putin is unusually complex.
However, within the layers of political and military considerations is, on Putin’s side, a little known personal connection. When Putin was a child he had a grade school teacher who made a huge impression on him. She took an interest in little Putin and encouraged him in positive ways. The teacher was Jewish. Putin never forgot her kindness. In fact, Putin purchased a lovely apartment in Tel Aviv as a gift to his old teacher. Perhaps, just perhaps, this relationship has made the Russian tyrant more receptive to the security needs of the Jewish state.
J.E. Dyer is a retired Naval Intelligence officer who lives in Southern California.
I have been following her work for a while and a few years ago Karen and I attended one of her lectures. She is smart, blessedly undramatic, and extremely knowledgable about military matters and the geopolitics of the Mideast.
Her analysis of the latest Israeli raid into Syria is superb.
Iranian forces in southern Syria launched 20 rockets at Israel in the Golan Heights on the night of 9 May (10 May in Israel). Now Israel appears to have launched a counter operation, whose goal is probably to significantly disable Iranian capabilities in Syria. The scope of the targeting, just in the first few hours, indicates a broad-scale, preemptive interdiction.
Trump signs the end of Obama’s Iranian appeasement deal.
Will sanctions alone bring down the IslamoNazis of Iran?
I doubt it.
But it’s worth trying.
And then, when sanctions fail, Israel should attack with their extremely capable air force and flatten all Iranian nuclear sites.
Remember, Israel eliminated the nuclear programs of Iraq and Syria. Of course, the international community wagged their collective finger and clucked their thick tongues about Israeli aggression. But is there anyone sane who is not relieved that Syria and Iraq are not nuclear powers today?
Walt Disney was the twentieth century’s prime example of American ingenuity. How did he do it? In this video, Glenn Beck, best-selling author and host of The Glenn Beck Program, explains how Disney became a household name, and how he proved that in America, the only limit to your ambition is your own imagination.
Photo by Eve Arnold, 1959.
“Alcoholism is an occupational hazard of being an actor, of being a widow, and of being alone. And I’m all three.”
—Joan Crawford
Obama with Tommy Vietor.
“After years of bashing US intelligence agencies for getting Iraq WMD wrong, Trump is now cooking up intel with the Israelis to push us closer to a conflict with Iran,” tweeted Obama’s former National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Vietor. According to the limo driver turned foreign policy expert turned podcaster the U.S.-Israeli cooking of intel was “a scandal hiding in plain sight.”
Does Vietor offer any evidence that the US and Israel fabricated the Iranian nuclear docs?
Of course not.
The documents have already been authenticated by the CIA.
I’m not terribly blown away by the revelation that the IslamoNazis in Iran have been lying to the world about their nuclear program. The mullahs in Iran are following the standard Islamic playbook of Taqiyya, which holds that lying to infidels in the name of Islam is perfectly okay.
The only people who ever believed the Iranian lies are the cynical Europeans who seek economic ties with the mullahs, and the deeply naive Barack Obama and his supporters. It should be noted that both the Europeans and the Obama bros have no love for the Jewish state.
We should also keep in mind that in 2015 John Kerry stated that the U.S. had “absolute knowledge” about the regime’s past nuclear efforts. Kerry’s statement unmasks the limits of American intelligence, if not the limits of Kerry’s intelligence.
In contrast, Israel has the best intelligence—human and electronic—in the Middle East. Think of it, Israel and her assets lifted half a ton of Iranian documents out of an Iranian warehouse and then somehow transported this valuable trove back to Israel. We can assume that Mossad then reeled in all their assets, burned them, for fear of exposing them to arrest, torture, and eventually public hanging.
The culture war is first and foremost a war of words – and the left is winning. The consequences can be seen everywhere: in politics, in education, in media. In this video, Michael Knowles, host of the Michael Knowles Show, explains why we should not cede another syllable
“When I cry, do you want the tears to run all the way or shall I stop halfway down?”
— Margaret O’Brien
Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT’L
You are all invited to the Fifteenth Annual Ariel Avrech ZT’L Memorial Lecture that will take place Sunday, June 10, 2018, at 10 AM, followed by brunch.
Location: Young Israel of Century City
9317 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90035
For those unable to attend the lecture will be posted here at Seraphic Secret.
Karen and I are delighted to announce that our good friend Jackie Danicki will deliver this year’s lecture:
“Confessions of a Convert: A Humbling, Joyful Journey to Judaism.”
What’s a greater leap of faith: God or the Multiverse? What’s the multiverse? Brian Keating, Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego, explains in this video.
“It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.”
—Tuesday Weld
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Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
