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…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 […]

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 28, 2018

Also posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Automobiles, Brigitte Bardot, Cary Grant, Charles Laughton, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Quotes, True Hollywood Confessions, Tuesday Weld, Vintage Cars | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, art, Brice Marden, Brigitte Bardot, Cary Grant, Charles Laughton, Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Dou, Lana Turner, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Myrna Loy, Ormond Gigli, Raphaelle Peale, Tuesday Weld, Vintage Cars, William Powell, Winslow Homer | 9 Responses

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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

Also posted in Art Deco, Brigitte Bardot, Design, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Seberg, Joan Bennett, Judaica, Judaism, María Félix, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Tippi Hedren, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged art, Brice Marden, Edward Steichen, Georges Dambier, Gordon Parks, Hans Holbein the Younger, Irving Penn, Jean Seberg, Jerzy Flisak, Joan Bennett, Ma'ayan Ariel, María Félix, Painting, Rick McGinnis, Succos, Suzy Parker, Tippi Hedren, Verner Panton, Wristwatches | 4 Responses

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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

Also posted in 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

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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

Also posted in 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

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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

Also posted in 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

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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

Also posted in 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

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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

Also posted in Alfred Hitchcock, 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

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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

Also posted in Brigitte Bardot, Design, Dovima, Gloria Grahame, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Ida Lupino, Judaica, Judaism, María Félix, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Andrew Wyeth, Cecil Beaton, David Bailly, Dovima, Fashion Photography, Gerald Murphy, Gloria Grahame, Ida Lupino, Irene Dunne, Irving Penn, María Félix, Nikolai Muth, North by Northwest, Pablo Picasso, Richard Avedon, Swedish Posters, The 39 Steps, Vintage Cars, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, William Gedney | 6 Responses

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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

Also posted in Art Deco, Audrey Hepburn, Carolyn Jones, Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Greta Garbo, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Crawford, Judaism, Movie Posters, Myrna Loy, Quotes, Tisha B'Av, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Angelica Hustone, Audrey Hepburn, Carolyn Jones, Dennis Stock, Edward Hopper, Francesco Bacchiacca, Franz Christian Gundlach, Gene Tierney, George Hurrell, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Myrna Loy, Paul Iribe, Steve McQueen, Wiktor Sadowski, Wristwatches | 3 Responses

How I Married Karen

The new book
by Robert J. Avrech

Available in All Major Book Stores

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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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