Category Archives: Friday Footwear

Jewish humor is filled with self-deprecating observations. We poke fun at our peculiar foibles, and frequently address our greatest anxieties — intermarriage, Jew-hatred, weight-gain — with a take-no-prisoners attitude. If you want to know how Jews are really feeling about something or someone, pay attention to the jokes Jews tell each other. A few days […]

Also posted in Abraham Avrech, Art, Friday Fotos, Holidays, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Marilyn Monroe, Obama Watch, Painting, Passover, Photography, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson | Tagged Anita Björk, Barbara Stanwyck, Eleanor Parker, Gary Cooper, Hank Greenberg, Hitchcock, I Confess, Jewish Humor, Jimmy Foxx, Kelly's Kosher Kitchen, Livia Yarden, Louboutin, Miss Julie, Rembrandt, Sally Gray, Tattoos, Teshuvah, Twin Towers | 30 Responses

Friday Photos: Mood Board

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 23, 2015

This morning, after Daf Yomi, my friend turned to me and said: “Some week, huh?” I said: “It seems that every week is some week.” “Yeah.” On that downer, let’s try and alter the mood with some photos and stories.

Also posted in Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Holocaust, Jewish Photography, Livia Yarden, Maayan Ariel, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Nolan, Movies, Photography | Tagged art, Buchenwald, Desert Nights, Eddie Mannix, Elizabeth Taylor, Erich von Stroheim, I Was an Adventuress, Indian Cinema, John Singer Sargent, Lon Chaney, Mary Nolan, Peter Lorre, Richard Greene, Seeta Devi, shul, synagogue, Tekhelet, The Light of Asia, Two White Dresses, West of Zanzibar, Zorina | 19 Responses

Friday Photos

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 2, 2015

Also posted in Family, Friday Fotos, Photography, Photography, Family, Girls Love Footwear | 5 Responses

Friday Photos: Just Because the World is Still Burning…

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 12, 2014

It’s been another terrible, horrible very bad week with the release of a Democrat, ahem, study, that seeks to persecute President George W. Bush and the CIA for their efforts to protect America against genocidal IslamoNazis. The Democrat Senate report is a lynching, just as the Ferguson riots are lynch mobs, and just as Rolling […]

Also posted in Audrey Hepburn, Clark Gable, Fashion, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Jews of Samarkand, Judaism, Lielle Meital, Maayan Ariel, Marilyn Monroe, Obama Watch, Photography, Photography, Family, Girls Love Footwear | Tagged art, Irving Penn, James Nares, Jewish Children in Samarkand, John F. Peto, Karen, Lielle Meital, Ma'ayan Ariel, Monk Strap Shoes, North Korea Hacks Sony, Painting, Red Dust, Sony Studios, Utagawa Hiroshige, Wayne F. Miller | 8 Responses

Friday Footwear — Stiletto Statistics

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: June 20, 2014

Sigmund Freud famously asked: “What do women want?” A new survey by ShoeBuy.com confirms what Seraphic Secret knows: Women want shoes. Women dream of nose-bleed stilettos, ballet flats, boots, Oxfords, sandals — whatever! If it clothes the foot, women lust for it. Okay, a few statistics.

Also posted in Brigitte Bardot, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Jean Harlow | Tagged AnneFrancis, Chester Morris, Eyal Nifrah, Forbidden Planet, Gilad Shaar, Ginger Rogers, Naftali Frenkel, Red Headed Woman, Robby the Robot, Roxie hart | 7 Responses

Friday Footwear

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 10, 2014

ObamaCare is creating financial and healthcare instability for millions of Americans. Foreign governments have come to understand that Obama has no interest in asserting America’s dominant role in world affairs. Thus, our allies despair, even as IslamoNazis ruthlessly fill the void created by Obama’s policies of appeasement. In reaction to the prevailing political gloom, footwear […]

Also posted in Fashion, Obamacare | Tagged Anne Francis, Charlotte Olympia, Chiara Ferragni, Forbidden Planet, Jimmy Choo, Nicholas Kirkwood, Robby the Robot, Sophia Webster, Stubbs and Wootton, Thea Cadabra | 8 Responses

Friday Footwear: The Best of Times, The ObamaCare of Times

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: November 15, 2013

Hollywood’s greatest era, the 1930’s, gave birth to two luminous and entertaining genres: the screwball comedy, and the lush musical. It is no coincidence that these escapist movies, filled with glamorous women swimming in fur and jewels, and painfully handsome men in perfectly tailored tuxedos, were produced during the depths of the Depression. You might […]

Posted in Friday Footwear | Tagged Alejandro Ingelmo, Charlotte Olympia, Chiarra Ferragni, Dolce & Gabbana, Liam Fahy, Op Art, Rene Caovilla, Sandra Dee, Sophia Webster | 11 Responses

The Art of High Heels

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: June 6, 2013

Freud famously asked: “What do women want?” Poor Sigmund, obsessively seeking an answer in the murky depths of the subconscious. Really, all he had to do was look around, and down, to realize that women want… shoes. Designer Boyarde Messenger’s hand painted collection of Charlotte Olympia pumps for Neiman Marcus is for women who want […]

Also posted in Art, Friday Fashion | Tagged Boyarde Messenger, Charlotte Olympia, Freud, Hodgkin, Lichtenstein, Mondrian, Picasso, Van Gogh, What do women want? | 17 Responses

Friday Footwear: Killer Heels

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 25, 2013

Dear Seraphic Secret: It’s true, we are depressed that Obama won the election. We are also angry that the Second Amendment is under attack by the commies who now run the U. S. government. But we still love shoes. So what gives, Robert? Is Karen walking around in flip-flops? Come on. Get over it. And […]

Also posted in Second Amendment | Tagged Brian Atwood, Chanel Handgun Heel, Fendi, Kate Spade, Michael Kors, Nicholas Kirkwood, Roger Vivier, Valentino | 20 Responses

Friday Photos: Random

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 4, 2013

Totally random selection of photos today. Enjoy!

Also posted in Friday Fotos, How I Married Karen | Tagged Footwear, James Nares, Jewish Tartan, Ma'ayan Ariel, Michael Kors Ionna Pump, Phantom of the Opera | 3 Responses

Friday Footwear: Lielle Meital Kicks Up Her Heels

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: October 5, 2012

Here are some more pink shoes Lielle has her eyes on.

Also posted in Friday Fashion, Friday Fotos | Tagged Brian Atwood, Chanel, Crocs, Jean Paul Gaultier, Lanvin, Lielle Meital, Louboutin, Pink shoes, Shabbat | 9 Responses

Friday Fashion: Mayan Ariel Super Styling for Rosh Hashanah

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 14, 2012

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins Sunday evening. It is traditional to greet the New Year with some new outfits. Maayan’s adorable dress reflects a discernible trend towards a return to patterns.

Also posted in Family, Friday Fashion, Maayan Ariel, Rosh Hashanah | Tagged leopard print shoes, Mary Katrantzou, Old Navy, Prints, Toms | 6 Responses

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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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Fifteenth: June 10, 2018
Jackie Danicki: “Confessions of a Convert: A Humbling, Joyful Journey to Judaism.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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