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Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”
― Frank Capra

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“You’re better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn’t wanna wander from the stable at night.”
—Betty Grable

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Passover 2020 The Story We Tell

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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks points out that when you read the Passover story, you come across something so remarkable and counterintuitive, which has an important lesson for us today.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.”
—Rosalind Russell

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Chanukah 2019, The Battle Continues

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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, returned to us the inheritance of our fathers.”

— First Book of the Maccabees, 15:33-34.

“לא ארץ נוכריה לקחנו ולא ברכוש זרים משלנו, כי אם נחלת אבותינו, אשר בידי אויבינו בעת מן העיתים בלא משפט נכבשה. ואנחנו כאשר הייתה לנו עת, הושיבונו נחלת אבותינו” (ספר מקבים א, טו’ לג-לד) [Read more…] about Chanukah 2019, The Battle Continues