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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

October 4, 2019 by Robert J. Avrech 7 Comments

Myrna Loy & William Powell in *The Thin Man*, 1934
She grinned at me. “You got types?”
“Only you, darling — lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.”
—Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man (1929)

9-11 Eighteen Years Later: Never Forget, Never Forgive,

September 11, 2019 by Robert J. Avrech 2 Comments

The Torah teaches that we should forever remember what Amalek did to the children of Israel in the desert. Furthermore, the Torah commands us to wipe this evil off the face of the earth.

Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God. Therefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.

—Deuteronomy 25

What was Amalek’s great evil?

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

July 5, 2019 by Robert J. Avrech 6 Comments

“I didn’t want to be just another blond in the movie world, brought out to be slapped into a bathing suit, perched in a cherry tree to be photographed and then sent back to New York.”
— Jan Sterling (1921-2004). Sterling’s best role was as the hard boiled Lorraine in Billy Wildrer’s *Ace in the Hole*, 1951, in which she delivers one of the greatest lines of dialogue ever written for motion pictures: “I don’t go the church. Kneeling bags my nylons.” In contrast to her movie image as a street-wise femme fatale, Sterling was a refined and educated woman who came from a wealthy Manhattan family. She attended posh private schools, and traveled widely in South America, London and Paris.

Democrats Double Down on Support of Jew Hatred

May 22, 2019 by Robert J. Avrech Leave a Comment

You would think that with Jew-haters Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandra Octavio-Cortez already so prominent in the liberal media the Democrat party—but I repeat myself—would, y’know, tread lightly with their obvious tolerance for the world’s oldest hate.

But you would be wrong.

The Democrats invited a well known Jew-hater, Omar Suleiman, to give the Ramadan invocation at the House of Representatives.

In short, the Democrats have doubled down on their legitimization of Jew-hatred.

Democrats Nurturing Jew-Hatred

May 15, 2019 by Robert J. Avrech Leave a Comment

From Commentary magazine by Abe Greenwald:

Disease is reversible—rot isn’t. Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib brought the disease of anti-Semitism into the upper echelons of the Democratic Party when they were elected in November. The party could have fought the disease. It chose instead to nurture it. And that’s when the irreversible rot set in.

The rot explains why Democrats, from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on down, are vigorously defending Tlaib’s recent lies about Arabs welcoming Jews after the Holocaust. It doesn’t matter what Tlaib or Omar say, how blunt their Jew-hatred is, or how often it’s aired. A defense pact is already in place that covers all calumnies against the Jews. Both the Democratic leadership and the liberal media establishment will back these bigots against any and all charges of anti-Semitism in return for smooth relations with the social-justice left. It’s a monstrous deal made by people too weak to defend their party and speak the truth.