Author Archives: Robert J. Avrech

Yom Kippur 2018

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 18, 2018

…In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and you shall not do any work … For on that day he shall provide atonement for you to cleanse you from all your sins before the L-RD. —Leviticus 16:29-30

Posted in Jewish Holidays, Judaica, Judaism, Yom Kippur | Tagged Little Western Wall, Yom Kippur | Leave a comment

Friend Ari Fuld Z’L Murdered by IslamoNazi

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 17, 2018

Yesterday, Ari Fuld, 45, beloved husband and father to four children, was murdered by an IslamoNazi. Though stabbed in the back, Ari courageously drew his weapon, and using his fast waning strength, pursued his attacker, and managed to shoot and wound the cowardly IslamoNazi before collapsing from his wounds. (CCTV of the incident here) Ari […]

Posted in Ari Fuld, Efrat, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Israel Defense Forces | Tagged Ari Fuld, Efrat, IDF, Israel, Karen Singer Avrech, Kever Rochel, Miriam Fuld, MiriamFuld, Rachel's Tomb, Standing Together, Tamar Fuld | 2 Responses

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 14, 2018

Posted in Art, Brigitte Bardot, Burt Reynolds, Costume Design, Design, Dovima, Greta Garbo, Hollywood, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Irving Penn, James Mason, Jean Seberg, Judaica, Judaism, Kim Novak, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions, Vintage Cars | Tagged Adrian, Art Deco, Babe Paley, Boris Grinsson, Brenda Marshall, Brigitte Bardot, Burt Reynolds, Dovima, Greta Garbo, Hamilton Watches, Henryk Ross, Irving Penn, James Mason, Jean Seberg, Kim Novak, Lodz Ghetto, Richard Avedon, Robert Delaunay, Vintage Cars | 4 Responses

What is Net Neutrality?

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 12, 2018

For months, it seemed nearly every media figure was in hysterics over the impending repeal of net neutrality. Then, net neutrality was repealed… and nothing much changed. So what exactly is net neutrality, and why do so many people have such strong opinions about something they don’t understand? Jon Gabriel, editor-in-chief of Ricochet.com cuts […]

Posted in Big Government, Net Neutrality, Prager University | Tagged Jon Gabriel, Net Neutrality, Prager University | Leave a comment

Rosh Hashanah 2018

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 9, 2018

Posted in Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Rosh Hashanah | Tagged Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Rosh Hashanah | Leave a comment

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 7, 2018

Posted in Art, Audrey Hepburn, Automobiles, Capucine, Carole Lombard, Design, Dovima, Fashion, Friday Fashion, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Irving Penn, Jean Seberg, Joan Blondell, Judaica, Judaism, Maayan Ariel, Montgomery Clift, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Quotes, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions, Vintage Cars | Tagged Bettina, Bugatti, Capucine, Carole Lombard, Ernest Lehman, Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn, Jacques Fath, Jean Philippe Charbonnier, Jean Seberg, Jean Simmons, Joan Blondell, Montgomery Clift, Myrna Loy, North by Northwest, Richard Avedon, Sorella Fontana, William Merritt Chase | 5 Responses

Hidden Hollywood: David O. Selznick and the Goy

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 5, 2018

The most commonly used Hebrew or Yiddish word for a non-Jew is goy. The word “goy” means nation, and refers to the fact that goyim are members of other nations, that is, nations other than the Children of Israel. There is nothing inherently insulting about the word “goy”. In fact, the Bible occasionally refers to […]

Posted in David O. Selznick, Hidden Hollywood, Hollywood, Judaica, Judaism, Language | Tagged David O. Selznick, David Thomson, Goy, Ivan Moffat, Jennifer Jones, Yiddish | 3 Responses

Left or Liberal?

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 3, 2018

Tell the average American you’re a liberal and they’ll assume you’re on the political left. Yet, leftists and liberals hold very different positions on key issues. In this video, Dennis Prager explains how the tenets of liberalism – like a belief in capitalism and free speech – have more in common with conservatism than […]

Posted in America, Big Government, Capitalism, Free Speech, Liberal Fascism, Prager University, Rascism | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alan Dershowitz, Borders, Capitalism, Dennis Prager, Free Speech, Hate Speech, Identity Politics, Judeo/Christian Civilization, Left, Liberal, Nationalism, Open Borders, Patriotism, Prager University, Racial Segragation, Socialism, Superman, Tech Companies, Western Civilization | 3 Responses

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 31, 2018

Posted in Art, Clara Bow, Design, Donald O'Connor, Dovima, Elizabeth Taylor, Fashion, Fred Astaire, Friday Fashion, Friday Fotos, Ginger Rogers, Hollywood, June Havoc, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Talmud | Tagged Anita Ekberg, Carlos Perez Siquier, Donald O'Connor, Dovima, Elizabeth Taylor, Eyes Without a Face, Fred Astaire, Gerald Murphy, Ginger Rogers, Heinrich Ehmsen, Henri Matisse, Jerry Plucer Sarna, Johnny Weissmuller, June Havoc, Maureen O'Sullivan, Morgan Auto, Nina Leen, Nomos, Regina Relang, Richard Avedon, Roger Evert, Tarzan, This Gun for Hire, Vincent van Gogh, Yale Joel | 3 Responses

Ofra Haza: Israel’s Greatest and Most Tragic Star

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 29, 2018

By Jake Novak Scene 1: Munich, Germany July 1983 Music has always been an integral part of the State of Israel. It seems like every year, every war, and every major event in the tiny nation’s history has produced its own special song. That’s one reason why the annual Eurovision song contest has meant so […]

Posted in Israel, Jake Novak, Judaism, Ofra Haza, Yemen | Tagged AIDS, Eurovision, Israel, Jake Novak, Jews of Yemen, Montreaux Jazz Festival, Music, Ofra Haza, Schunat Hatikva, Sephardim | 3 Responses

The Dark Secret Behind Obama’s Iran Deal

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 27, 2018

Ami Horowitz breaks down the details of Iran’s nuclear secrets in the aftermath of America’s withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal.

Posted in America, Iran | Tagged Ami Horowitz, Iran, Iran Nuclear Deal, Obama, Trump | Leave a comment

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 24, 2018

Posted in Art, Friday Fashion, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, Screenwriting | Tagged Anna May Wong, Ben Hecht, Clara Driscoll, Dovima, Edmund Charles Tarbell, Elliott Erwitt, Gerald Murphy, Gigi, Guy Pene du Bois, Henry Clarke, Laszlo Willinger, Marilyn Monroe, Myrna Loy, Niagra, Norman Parkinson, Orson Welles, Richard Estes, Ruth Orkin, Stout Scarab, Tiffany, Vintage Cars | 5 Responses

Hidden Hollywood: Marilyn Monroe’s Secret Note

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 22, 2018

Posted in Hidden Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe | Tagged Abortion, Appendectomy, Hidden Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, Medical Hollywood | 1 Response

A Nation of Immigrants

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 20, 2018

The common narrative today is that after decades of globalism, hard-hearted Americans now seek to close the nation’s borders to new immigrants. But the truth is that the United States maintains the most generous immigration policies in the world. However, as CRTV host and author of “Invasion” and “Sold Out” Michelle Malkin explains, a […]

Posted in America, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Prager University | Tagged Borders, chain migration, Diversity Visa Lottery, eVerify, Illegal Aliens, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Lady Liberty, Michelle Malkin, Prager University | Leave a comment

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 17, 2018

Posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Art, Barbara Stanwyck, Baseball, Brigitte Bardot, Carole Lombard, Design, Fashion, Glamour, Henry Fonda, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Humphrey Bogart, Israel, Jean Harlow, Jewish Photography, Judaica, Judaism, Katherine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Livia Yarden, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, Rick McGinnis, Rock Hudson, Silent Movies, True Hollywood Confessions, William Powell | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Art Deco Radios, Barbara Stanwyck, Baseball Hall of Fame, Brigitte Bardot, Carole Lombard, Dashiel Hammett, Edouard Boubat, Erwin Blumenfeld, Fred Herzog, Gerald Murphy, Hell's Angels, Henry Fonda, Howard Hughes, Jean Harlow, Joes McCrea, John Thomas Peele, Livia, Norma Talmadge, Photography, Photoplay Magazine, Polish Posters, Rick McGinnis, Rock Hudson, Ruth Orkin, William Powell | 12 Responses

Hidden Hollywood: Casting Call for Tzar Nicholas

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 15, 2018

David O. Selznick, producer of Gone With the Wind, probably the most profitable movie ever made, was the son of industry pioneer Lewis J. Selznick. The elder Selznick had been an independent producer in the early days of Hollywood who pioneered a new age of Wall Street investment in the motion picture business.

Posted in David O. Selznick, Hidden Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Judaism, Movie Posters, Movies | Tagged David O. Selznick, Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, Howard Selznick, Josef von Sternberg, Lewis J. Selznick, Myron Selznick, Nicholas Romanoff, Russia, The Last Command | 4 Responses

What Was the Cold War?

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 13, 2018

The decades-long “Cold War” (1947-1989) between the United States and the Soviet Union was so named because the two global powers never came to direct blows. Yet, the war was not without its victims. In fact, millions of Cubans, Koreans and Vietnamese suffered under Communist tyranny. In this video, Renowned British historian Andrew Roberts […]

Posted in America, Politics, Prager University, Soviet Union | Tagged Andrew Roberts, Cold War, Cuba, Korea, Prager University, Vietnam | Leave a comment

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 10, 2018

Posted in Design, Gloria Grahame, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Israel, Jean Harlow, Jerusalem, Lucille Ball, Mary Carlisle, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, RIP, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Archeology in Israel, Bombshell, Dovima, Edward Boubat, Gerald Murphy, Gloria Grahame, John Lee Mahin, Jules Furthman, Lucille Ball, Mark Shaw, Mary Carlisle, Myrna Loy, Richard Avedon, Tiffany, Victor Fleming, Wristwatches | 8 Responses

The Secret Arafat Tape

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 8, 2018

“[Ariel] Sharon even considered disseminating a videotape filmed by Romanian intelligence in the late 1970s. General Ion Mihai Pacepa, the former head of DIE (the Soviet-Romanian intelligence organization)—who said of [Yasser] Arafat, “I have never seen so much cleverness, blood, and abomination combined in one man”—recalled that his men had installed hidden cameras in the […]

Posted in IslamoNazis, Israel | Tagged Homosexuality, Terrorist, Yasser Arafat | 2 Responses

Make Men Masculine Again

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 6, 2018

Rape, murder, war – all have one thing in common: Men. The solution seems simple: make men less toxic – make men less masculine. In this video, Allie Stuckey, Host of “Allie” on CRTV & “Relatable” podcast, explains why demonizing masculinity is not the solution, but the problem.

Posted in Family, Feminism, Prager University, Rape | Tagged Allie Stuckey, Anti-Male, Bad Men, Dennis Prager, Fatherless Homes, Good Men, masculinity, Men, Murder, Prager University, Rape, Real Men, The Abolition of Man, Toxic Feminism, Toxic Masculinity, Tyranny, War, Women | Leave a comment

How I Married Karen

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by Robert J. Avrech

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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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Annual Ariel Avrech
Memorial Lectures
Young Israel of Century City
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Fifteenth: June 10, 2018
Jackie Danicki: “Confessions of a Convert: A Humbling, Joyful Journey to Judaism.”

Blog Post | Audio: (94 MB)

Fourteenth: June 11, 2017
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

Blog Post | Audio: (100 MB)

Thirteenth: May 22, 2016Ben Shapiro: “How You Can Save Israel”

Blog Post | Audio: (70 MB)

Twelfth: June 7, 2015
Larry Elder: “The New Black Anti-Semitism”

Blog Post | Audio: (100 MB)

Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”

Blog Post | Audio: (97MB)

Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”

Blog Post | Audio: (16MB)

Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”

Blog Post | Audio: (15MB)

Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”

Blog Post | Audio: (18MB)

Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”

Blog Post | Audio: (80MB)

Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: “Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?”

Blog Post | Audio: (64MB)

Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: “What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania.”

Blog Post | Audio: (70MB)
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