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.
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)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)
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Category Archives: Chanukah
Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
Also posted in Art, Dovima, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Kim Novak, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters
Tagged Daniel Mainwaring, Dovima, Francesco Bacchiacca, Jane Greer, Kathleen Byron, Kim Novak, Lauren Bacall, Out of the Past, Richard Avedon, Robert Mitchum, Rock Hudson, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Tiffany, Veronica Lake
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Chanukah 2017: The Battle of the Maccabees Continues
Today is the first day of Chanukah. And here is a timeless message from Simon the Maccabee: “We have not taken a foreign land, nor did we take the property of others — for this is the inheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed by our enemies. But we, having the opportunity, […]
Also posted in Donald Trump, Israel, Jerusalem, Judaism
Tagged Antiochus IV, Chanukah, Jerusalem, Judea, Maccabees, Menorah, President Trump, Samaria, The Miracle of Chanukah
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Chanukah 2016: A New Antiochus, The Same Bloody Ground
A Chanukah message from Simon the Maccabee: “We have not taken a foreign land, nor did we take the property of others — for this is the inheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed by our enemies. But we, having the opportunity, returned to us the inheritance of our fathers.” — First […]
Also posted in 2016 Election, IslamoNazis, Israel, Obama Watch
Tagged Antiochus Obama, Jewish Collaborators, Progressive Jews
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Antiochus Obama
Ever since Obama was elected we have said that he is a classic leftist Jew-hater. Obama spent 20 years as a faithful member of Jeremiah Wright’s church because Wright, a proud and vocal Jew-hater, articulated everything Obama felt: hatred of America, hatred of Jews. Obama’s envoy in the UN, Samantha Power, has a history of […]
Also posted in Iran, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jerusalem, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, Jewish Holidays
Tagged Antiochus, Israel, Obama, Samantha Power, UN
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
I would be remiss if I did not link to a splendid Christmas or Chanukah gift. You have my personal guarantee that this item is awesome. Also available from the Apple iTunes store.
Also posted in Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaica, Judaism, Movies, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions
Tagged A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Adam Tihany, Chanukah, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, Gerard ter Borch, Harry Callahan, Hiroshi Watanabe, Joel Meyerowitz, John McLaughlin, Lawrence of Arabia, Miriam Hopkins, Nicholas Maes, Night of the Hunter, Peter O'Toole, Rick McGinnis, Ruth Chatterton, Shelly Winters, Shneur Zalman Mendelowitz, Tim Walker, Twilight Zone
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Tibor Rubin, Holocaust survivor and Korean War Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 86
Tibor Rubin has passed away. He was an authentic Jewish-American hero, a modern day Maccabee. Baruch Dayan Emet. Tibor Rubin, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who joined the U.S. Army out of gratitude for his liberation from the Nazis, then earned the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Korean War, died of natural causes Saturday […]
Also posted in America, History, Holocaust, Tibor Rubin, U.S. Army
Tagged anti-Semitism, Hungarian Jews, Jewish Heroes, Jews in Uniform, Korean war, Mauthausen, Medal of Honor, POW
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Chanukah 2015, The Same Bloody Ground
A Chanukah Message from Simon the Maccabee: “We have not taken a foreign land, nor did we take the property of others — for this is the inheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed by our enemies. But we, having the opportunity, returned to us the inheritance of our fathers.” — […]
Also posted in Jerusalem, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, Jewish Holidays, Judaism
Tagged Greek Culture, Hellenized Jews, Judea & Samaria, Maccabees, Menorah, Syrian Greeks
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A Timeless Chanukah Message From…
A married couple, two of our dearest friends, are making aliyah (going up) to Israel tomorrow. They sent us this message as the timeless reason they are, at last, moving to the Jewish state.
Also posted in Bible, Holidays, Israel
Tagged Aliyah, Book of the Maccabees, Shimon the Maccabee
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Hollywood: When Evil Triumphs
The most popular and durable Hollywood character is the lone hero. The man, or woman, who against all odds, confronts and defeats evil. In the old days, there was usually a shoot out, a duel on the dusty street of a frontier town between the forces of darkness and the forces of decency. From the […]
Also posted in Hollywood, Iran, Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, North Korea, Propaganda War, Sony
Tagged Alan Ladd, Courage, Cowardice, James Franco, Seth Rogan, Shane, The Interview
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The Old-New Chanukah War 2014
On December 5, 2012, The New York Times filed this story: Cheering U.N. Palestine Vote, Synagogue Tests Its Members. Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, a large synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is known for its charismatic rabbis, its energetic and highly musical worship, and its liberal stances on social causes. But on Friday, when […]
Where’s Your IslamoNazi Membership Card?
Take a look inside your wallet. Chances are you have various membership cards. Seraphic Secret belongs to: the Automobile Club of Southern California, Writer’s Guild of America, West, The Parking Spot, Halachic Organ Donor Society, just a few among many. Are these cards the sum total of our existence? According to the leftists who are […]
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Tagged Caliphate, Fort Hood, Islam and Psychology, Lone Wolves, Membership in Jihad, Sydney Australia
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Hasmonean Past Is Present
As the Demorats and their ObamaCare law grinds millions of Americans into misery, we who love this republic, are deeply worried about its future. Simultaneously, Obama betrays Israel at every step, enabling the IslamoNazis of Iran to achieve their nuclear goal. Thus, Israelis, and those who love Zion, are also worried about the future. But […]
Also posted in America, Iran, Israel, Jerusalem, Obama Watch, Obamacare
Tagged Archeology in Israel, Hasmonean Period, Jerusalem National Park
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Judah Maccabee Wants You to Man-Up
Before Judah the Maccabee and his pitifully small band of 3,000 men went to battle against the great armies of the Selecuid empire, Judah assembeled his troops and gave them a rousing speech. This excerpt, from the Book of Maccabees, gives you an idea of the noble and pious rhetoric Judah used to inspire his followers. […]
Also posted in Israel, Judaism
Tagged Consercative values, Judah Maccabee, Menorah, Selecuid empire, The Jewish Temple rededicated, The Miracle of Chanukah
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Thanksgiving, Chanukah 2013
The problem with liberty is, once achieved it becomes like oxygen — something taken for granted. Said John Adams, “There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” For the first time, and never again, the first day of Chanukah will be celebrated on Thanksgiving. This is a moment in time we should […]
The Old-New Chanukah Wars
On December 5, 2012, The New York Times filed this story: Cheering U.N. Palestine Vote, Synagogue Tests Its Members. Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, a large synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is known for its charismatic rabbis, its energetic and highly musical worship, and its liberal stances on social causes. But on Friday, when […]
Posted in Chanukah
Tagged Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, Hellenized Jews, How I Married Karen, Maccabees
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Hamas Leader Khaled Mashal: We Will Not Relinquish Palestine from the River to the Sea…
On Saturday, Hamas leader Khaled Mashal gave a speech notable for its honesty. Which is to say that this IslamoNazi fully articulated the goal of Hamas: the liquidation of the Jewish state. When Hamas or the Palestinian Authority speak of the “occupation,” they are not referring Judea and Samaria. They are speaking of the entire […]
Also posted in Hamas, Israel, Jew-haters
Tagged IslamoNazis, Maria, Sesame Street, Sonia Manzano
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A Bookish Chanukah and Christmas
I love books. Casa Avrech is stuffed with bookshelves that are, of course, stuffed with books. As much as Seraphic Secret admires and makes use of eBooks via Kindle and the iPad, there is still something about paper, binding, and the fragrance of a freshly opened page that is intoxicating. Books are the perfect holiday […]
Also posted in Books, Edith Head
Tagged Edith Head, In the Shadow of Greatness, Laura Moriarty, Louise Brooks, The Chaperone
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Chanukah: Light Up the Night
Here’s an original Chanukah song from the Ein Prat Fountainheads [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzh-TKzXN2k[/youtube] And of course, a Merry Christmas to our cherished Christian friends.
