Seraphic Secret | Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Religious Zionist. Republican. Movie fanatic. Gun owner. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

By Robert J. Avrech | May 16, 2012

Medical Evidence: Trayvon Martin, Who Looks Like Obama’s Son, Beat Zimmerman Bloody Before Shooting

George Orwell observed that “we have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”

Seraphic Secret will now restate the obvious:

1. George Zimmerman was lynched in advance by race hustlers Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Barack Obama and the usual cast of vulgar, opportunistic, chronically self-righteous progressives.

2. The mainstream media, which is to say the ministers of progressive propaganda who act as enablers for the race baiters, are, once again—remember the verbal lynching of the Duke Lacrosse team?—guilty of journalistic terrorism.

3. The New York Times labeled George Zimmerman a “white Hispanic.” This was the first time such a Nuremberg-like racial designation was ever used by the newspaper of record. Obviously, a naked attempt to turn a murky incident into a racial crime starring an evil caucasian—with a Jewish last name—deliberately murdering an innocent black man.

Posted in Jews & Guns, Los Angeles Riots, Obama Watch, Politics | Tagged Al Sharpton, George Zimmerman, Jesse Jackson, Liberal Media, New York Times, progressives, Race Hustlers, Trayvon Martin | Leave a comment

By Robert J. Avrech | May 15, 2012

Gay Marriage: Gateway for Polygamy

“Okay wives, say clitoridectomy!”

Regarding gay marriage, really a redefinition of marriage: the ideological lines in American religious communities are pretty much what you would expect. Orthodox Jews are overwhelmingly opposed, Conservative (not a political designation) and Reform Jews are mostly in favor. Seraphic Secret is not as familiar with the multiple and varied Christian communities but we assume the same dividing lines exist with the more liberal churches in favor and the more traditional churches opposed.

But we have not heard much from the usually outspoken American Muslim community. One would assume that pious Muslims would be quite vocal in their opposition for traditional Islam has a clear stance against homosexuality.

Posted in Gay Marriage | Tagged Christianity, Islam, Judiasm, polygamy, sharia | 8 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | May 14, 2012

U.S. Muslim Group With Close Ties To The White House To Host Tunisia’s Jew-Hating PM

The Islamic Society of North America has deep ties to the Obama administration. Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s most trusted confidant, was the keynote speaker at their 2009 convention. And Ingrid Mattson, the group’s former president, was invited by Obama to deliver a prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast in 2009.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism reports:

A major American Islamist organization close to the Obama administration will host Tunisian Islamist Rachid Ghannouchi at its national conference in late August. The invitation is one of the Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) most visible engagements with Islamist politics taking charge in the Middle East.

Despite ISNA’s insistence that Ghannouchi is “an advocate of religious tolerance and freedom, women’s rights, [and] non-violent leadership,” the chief of Tunisia’s Ennahda party has an extremist record.

Ghannouchi was denied a visa to the United States in the 1990s and much of this decade for a series of violently anti-American comments. He was only admitted into the country last year for a whirlwind tour, which included the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and several think tanks, after his party won power in Tunisian elections.

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Posted in Islamic Terror, Obama Watch, Tunisia | Tagged Ennahda, ISNA, Rachid Ghannouchi | 3 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | May 13, 2012

President Barack Obama’s Complete List of Historic Firsts

Ask the man in the street to list President Obama’s historic firsts and the answer will probably be limited to Obama as America’s first black president.

But Doug Ross has compiled a list of even more impressive firsts for Obama, an historic catalog which could only be accomplished by a combination of ruthless cynicism, fanatic leftistism, and contempt for the American Constitution.

• First president to preside over a cut to the credit rating of the United States Government.

• First president to violate the War Powers Act.

• First president to orchestrate the sale of murder weapons to Mexican drug cartels.

• First president to issue an unlawful “recess-appointment” while the U.S. Senate remained in session (against the advice of his own Justice Department).

• First president to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Posted in 2012 Election, Obama Watch | Tagged Barack Obama, Fast and Furious, National Deficit, Obamacare, Shovel Ready Jobs | 12 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | May 11, 2012

Friday Photos: My Beautiful Neighborhood

Yours truly near Brooklyn's Prospect Park with my very first Kodak Brownie. I think there were twelve exposures per roll, hence I was very careful with my shot selection. When the roll was finished I took it to the local drug store and had to wait two excruciating weeks for the prints, half of which were out of focus.

Los Angeles is built for the automobile. But I make it my business to walk around, exploring unexpected corners of my neighborhood. Behind the wheel of a car the world whooshes past in a blur. But on foot I have the opportunity to focus on the deliciously ordinary. All photos were taken with my iPhone.

Posted in Friday Fotos, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Photography, Signs | Tagged John Bolton, LA Photography, Los Angeles Street Scenes, Yeshiva Flatbush | 16 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | May 10, 2012

The Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters

Hard at work, John Lee Mahin, one of Hollywood's greatest screenwriters.

From where do we draw wisdom?

First and foremost, Seraphic Secret relies on Torah, on the lessons of 3,000 years of Jewish history and the common sense advice of my wife Karen.

And then there are the movies, a moral landscape of immeasurable power where searing images and razor-sharp dialogue deliver lessons in human character that, for better or worse, shape modern man’s consciousness.

I know it seems ludicrous if not downright blasphemous noting Torah and movies as primary influences but the mind of yours truly, a screenwriter and movie-lover, is a stage of raging intellectual conflicts.

Here are several prime slices of dialogue that elegantly and economically reveal secret corners of our hearts and minds.

Posted in Hollywood, Screenwriting, The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood | Tagged Beast of the City, Greta Garbo, Jane Greer, Jean Harlow, Jean Peters, John Lee Mahin, Lag BaOmer, Out of the Past, Pickup on South Street, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, Sam Fuller, The Temptress, Wallace Ford | 20 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | May 9, 2012

In the Footsteps of King David

Khirbet Qeiyafa stone ark (Photo: Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

King David is the most fully documented character in the Torah. His narrative is epic, filled with the kind of detail—heroic and unsavory—that makes David such a compelling character. We identify with his yearning for a relationship with G-d, his courage in battle, we see aspects of ourselves in his tragic weakness as a man, a husband and father. David is, above all, profoundly human.

As a screenwriter, I consider the David story the greatest narrative never properly filmed. Saul’s daughter, and David’s (sometime) wife Michal is worthy of her own movie.

The bible critics who label themselves minimalists have made it their mission to attack the story of King David as a fabrication. They claim that no such man ever lived. The biblical narrative, they further assert, is probably based on some minor tribal chieftan who, for religious and nationalist motives, has been elevated to kinghood.

Of course, the 1933 Tel Dan “House of David” inscription provided archeological proof of David’s rule and the ongoing excavations in the City of David in Jerusalem provides further evidence, but the minimilists—true believers—dismiss the discoveries and continue their jihad of denial.

Now, another exciting archeological discovery in Israel provides even more physical evidence of David’s kingdom.

Posted in Jerusalem, King David | Tagged Bible Studies, Biblical Kings, City of David, Israeli Archeology, Jewish History, Khirbet Qeiyafa, Michal, Prof. Yosef Garfinkel | 20 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | May 8, 2012

Bob Strait Murdered by Man Who Looks Like Obama’s Son

Bob and Nancy Strait, murdered in a home invasion by Tyrone Woodfork.

On March 25, 2012 Seraphic Secret reported on the horrific rape and murder of Nancy Strait and the simultaneous assault on her husband Bob of Tulsa Oklahoma by Tyrone Woodfork.

After lingering for weeks in the hospital, Bob Strait died on Friday.

The national liberal media did not and has not bothered reporting this story. Instead, they are fixated on lynching George Zimmerman.

In addition, Attorney General Eric Holder piously invoked Martin in a speech to the NAACP, making Martin a martyr to the cause of civil rights, just like, y’know, Rev. Martin Luther King.

One has to ask: Why does Trayvon Martin get all the sympathetic media attention whereas Bob and Nancy Strait are flushed down the memory hole?

Posted in 2012 Election, Obama Watch | Tagged 101 Airborne, Al Sharpton, Bob and Nancy Strait, George Zimmerman, Jesse Jackson, Mainstream Media, Oklahoma, Race Hustlers, Racial Politics, Rape, Trayvon Martin, Tulsa, Tyrone Woodfork | 5 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | May 7, 2012

Obama’s Israel Bashing Bundler

Let’s review: Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger, Rashid Khalidi, Derrick Bell, Merrill A. McPeak, Khalid al-Mansour, Al Sharpton.

Obama gravitates towards Jew-haters and Israel bashers. And the radical leftist ideology he represents attracts Jew-haters and Israel bashers.

Thus, it’s no surprise that one of his bundlers is another in a long line of Obama associates who marinate in delusional Jewish conspiracies.

Posted in 2012 Election, Jew-haters, Obama Watch | Tagged Al Sharpton, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Derrick Bell, Hala Hijazi, Israel Bashers, Jeremiah Wright, Khalid al-Mansour, Merrill A. McPeak, Michael Pfleger, Radical Leftists, Rashid Khalidi, San Francisco Leftists | 5 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | May 6, 2012

Obama Osama Memo if Mission Failed: “I’m So Not Responsible’

Look, if the OBL kill-mission failed does anyone seriously think that the mainstream media would have held Obama accountable?

Of course not. Just as they covered up his disgusting 20-plus year association with Jew-hater Jeremiah Wright—and when revealed there was only one soft-ball question from the MSM—they would, instead, savage one of their favorite liberal targets: a rogue U.S. military.

Gutsy call? Look, I’m all for killing terrorists and terrorist leaders. But we no longer take prisoners to interrogate and extract high value intel. That’s because Obama thinks its mean to imprison genocidal Islamists in Gitmo. Thus, it’s drone warfare which is Hollywood cool but profoundly limiting. And while Obama is deleting individual jihadists he’s losing the Arab Muslim Middle East to a poisonous brew of Salafists and Muslim Brotherhood, while funding the jihadists of the Palestinian Authority.

Anyhoo.

Obama was taking no chances with the OBL assassination.

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Sean Hannity… that the Obama Administration drafted a memo to protect the president from blame if the mission to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden would have failed. That way Obama could blame the general [Admiral William H. McRaven] instead of taking the blame himself. Mukasey wrote about it this week in The Wall Street Journal.

“That was a highly lawyered memo (designed to protect the president politically)… I think there’s going to be more that’s going to be tumbling out about that escapade but so far that memo is enough.“

Hmm…

Posted in Islamic Terror, Jew-haters, Obama Watch, Osama bin Laden | Tagged Admiral McRaven, Eisenhower, IslamoNazis, Leadership, Lincoln, Michael Mukasey | 3 Comments

About Me
Robert J. Avrech
Los Angeles, California
I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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