How I Married Karen
The new book
by Robert J. Avrech
Available in All Major Book Stores
Adobe Digital Edition's version is available through the Lulu store!
- 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.
Annual Ariel Avrech
Memorial Lectures
Young Israel of Century City
NOTE: Click on video titles inside the thumbnail images, below, to open that video in YouTube
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)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)
-
Contact
Seraphic Press
About Seraphic Press
About Ariel Avrech
About Robert J. Avrech Behind the Scenes at Seraphic Press
On the Horizon: Upcoming Projects
Seraphic Press Events
The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden
Download The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden
THE HEBREW KID AND THE APACHE MAIDEN, by Robert J. Avrech, the debut novel for Seraphic Press, is out now.
What they are saying about The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden
Buy The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden at Amazon.com
Buy The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden at Barnes & Noble.com
ISBN #: 0-9754382-1-2
Seraphic Gifts
-
Author Archives: Robert J. Avrech
David O. Selznick Pitches a Movie in Israel
In 1958, producer David O. Selznick had an idea for a Biblical epic. He explained to screenwriter Edward Anhalt, “I want to combine Mary the sister of Lazarus, the adulteress Jesus saved from the stoning, the whore who washed His feet, and the Mary Magdalene who was the first to see Him resurrected, into one […]
The American Trinity: The Three Values That Make America Great
Nearly every country on Earth is defined by race or ethnicity. Not America. What makes the United States different? Dennis Prager outlines the values that have allowed the American people to flourish and, unlike immigrants almost everywhere else, transformed those who arrived from across the globe into full Americans—regardless of where they were born.
Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
Posted in Ansel Adams, Art, Art Deco, Automobiles, Design, Dovima, Elvis Presley, Fashion, Friday Fotos, Gary Cooper, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaica, Judaism, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Photography, Quotes, True Hollywood Confessions
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Alfred Wertheimer, Art Deco, Ben Hur, Berthe Morisot, Clyfford Still, Dovima, Elvis Presley, Gary Cooper, George Hoyningen-Huene, German-Jewish Soldiers, Horst P. Horst, Jerzy Flisak, Jessica Tandy, Judy garland, Karen Singer Avrech, Marlene Dietrich, Norman Parkinson, Richard Avedon, Rick McGinnis, Vintage Cars, World War I
5 Responses
Hidden Hollywood: Jorjett Strumme, Ten Years With Elizabeth Taylor
Jorjett Strumme had a fascinating life and career in Hollywood. I first met Jorjett when I discovered that she worked as an assistant to the great costume designer Helen Rose from 1981-1985, which I wrote about here. Jorjett went on to work with costume designer Nolan Miller from 1982-1985. And then, Jorjett was Personal Assistant […]
What’s Wrong with Government-Run Healthcare?
If you get sick or suffer a serious injury, you not only want medical care, you want quality medical care. What’s the best way to get it? Through a government-run program like Medicare for All or through our current free market system? Stanford policy expert Lanhee Chen has the answer in this video from Prager […]
Posted in America, Big Government, Health Care
Tagged Big Government, Biomedical Research, Bureacrats, Canada, Emergency Rooms, Freedom, health care, Illness, Innovation, Medicare, National Health Care, National Health Service, Prager University, Private Sector, Quality Health Care, Single Payer, taxes, United Kingdom, Utopia
2 Responses
Goodbye, Columbus Day
Even though it remains a national holiday, many cities no longer celebrate Columbus Day. They celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead. What’s behind the switch? Contrary to what you might think, it’s not about paying homage to America’s original inhabitants. Steven Crowder, host of Louder with Crowder, explains.
Posted in America, Columbus Day, Prager University
Tagged 1492, America, Columbus Day, Prager University, Steven Crowder, Western Civilization
Leave a comment
Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
Posted in Art, Greta Garbo, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Lauren Bacall, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Olivia De Havilland, Painting, Photography, Quotes, True Hollywood Confessions
Tagged Adrienne Ames, Agnes Martin, Charles Boyer, Erwin Blumenfeld, Fashion Photography, Frederic Brenner, George Shaw, Greta Garbo, Irving Penn, Jews of Yemen, King Vidor, Lauren Bacall, Marvin Sokolsky, Myrna Loy, Navajo Blankets, Olivia de Havilland, Ralph Richardson, Robert Donat, Ronald Coleman, Winslow Homer, Wristwatches
4 Responses
Why Do Wages Rise?
Many people believe the only path to higher wages is to put in more work hours, but there are actually many economic factors that go into deciding the number on each worker’s paycheck. Watch this short video to learn more!
Posted in Economy, Free Market, Prager University
Tagged Business, Competition, Economics, Free Market, GDP, Labor Market, Money, Prager University, Wage Growth, Wages
1 Response
Succot 2018: Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
…On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Sukkot, seven days for the L-RD… on the eighth day, there shall be a holy convocation for you. -Leviticus 23:34 Tonight begins the last days of the Succot holiday, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. We will be offline until Wednesday. We wish all […]
Posted in Art, Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Painting, Shemini Atzeret, Simchat Torah, Succos, Torah
Tagged Shemini Atzeret, Simchat Torah, Succot, Torah
Leave a comment
Who Is Karl Marx?
When writing The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx thought he was providing a road to utopia, but everywhere his ideas were tried, they resulted in catastrophe and mass murder. In this video, Paul Kengor, Professor of Political Science at Grove City College, illuminates the life of the mild-mannered 19th Century German whose ideas led to the […]
Posted in Big Government, Marxism, Paul Kengor, Politics, Prager University
Tagged Brute Force, China, Communism, Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, Democracy, Engels, Famine, Freedom, Karl Marx, Lenin, Mao, Mass Murder, North Korea, Pol Pot, Prager University, private property, Soviet Union, Stalin, Terror
1 Response
Succot 2018
As Jews all over the world make last minute preparations for the holiday of Sukkot, which begins this evening, here are a few wonderfully evocative pictures of Jews celebrating this joyous holiday in Israel — and a rare photo of Jews in Samarkand. You will dwell in booths for seven days; all natives of Israel […]
Posted in Jerusalem, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Photography, Judaism, Succos
Tagged Judaism, Succah, Succot, Torah Judaism
3 Responses
What is Hezbollah?
When listing the world’s most notorious terrorist organizations, why is it that Al-Qaeda, ISIS and Boko Haram so quickly spring to mind, while Hezbollah is frequently forgotten? In this video, Tony Badran, Research Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, explains how the backing of Iran has served to legitimize Hezbollah on the world […]
Yom Kippur 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
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, pursued his attacker, and managed to shoot and wound the cowardly IslamoNazi before collapsing from his wounds. (CCTV of the incident here) Ari was rushed to Shaarei Tzedek hospital […]
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
3 Responses
