Category Archives: Judaism & Christianity

Memorial Day Weekend, 2017

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 28, 2017

On Memorial Day, we remember all the members of our armed services who paid the ultimate price in service to this great country. Our eternal gratitude.

Also posted in Abraham Avrech, America, Judaism, Memorial Day, War, World War II | Tagged 42nd Rainbow Division, Abraham Avrech, Chaplain Abraham Avrech, Jewish Chaplains, Korean war, Memorial Day, Vietnam | 1 Response

Flashback: Hollywood Celebrates Christmas

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 22, 2016

During Hollywood’s Golden Age, the studios, via newspapers, fan magazines, and trade publications, published photos of their stars celebrating Christmas. In this way, Hollywood—though founded by poor immigrant Jews—informed the public that the motion picture industry was in harmony with Christian America. Seraphic Secret—Karen and I—are Orthodox Jews. We observe the Sabbath and eat only […]

Also posted in Christianity, Christmas, Holidays, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, How I Married Karen, IslamoNazis, Judaism, Photography | Tagged BB, Brigitte Bardot, Christian America, Clara Bow, Cyd Charisse, How I Married Karen, Jayne Mansfield, Jobyna Ralston, Louise Brooks, Marceline Day, Mary Pickford, Maureen O'Sullivan, Priscilla Lane, Rita Hayworth, Shirley Temple | 6 Responses

Male in Female Bathrooms, Modesty Anyone?

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: April 26, 2016

It’s happening with astonishing speed. The radical left has moved from the redefinition of marriage to the nullification of gender. If you feel that you are a woman, then justice demands that you and your penis have the right to use the women’s restroom. Those who disagree are labeled bigots. Giant corporations buckle under pressure […]

Also posted in America, Christianity, Judaism, Masculine/Feminine | Tagged Bone Marrow Transplant, Categorical Imperative, Culture Wars, Hasidim, Liberty Science Center, Male-Female, Mental Illness, Modesty, Public Restrooms, sexuality, Target, Transgender | 8 Responses

Late WWII US Veteran is 1st Soldier Honored for Saving Jews

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

The bad news just keeps on coming. The Arab Muslim Middle East is a vast, borderless slaughterhouse. IslamoNazis are a global scourge that the West foolishly refuses to name. America, once the leader of the free world, is now led by a feckless fool who drones on about the weather rather than confront the IslamoNazi […]

Also posted in America, IslamoNazis, Judaism, U.S. Army, World War II | Tagged Battle of the Bulge, Bernie Sanders, Courage, Hillary Clinton, Holocaust, Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds, Righteous Among the Nations. | 7 Responses

Thanksgiving 2015: The Children of the Children of Israel

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: November 25, 2015

As far as I know, there are only two countries in the world that were founded on the idea of hope. America and Israel. And what was the hope? The hope of achieving religious freedom, and freedom from the tyranny of centralized government. The Children of Israel, fleeing Egyptian slavery and religious persecution, settled the […]

Also posted in America, Barbara Kent, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Israel, Judaism, Thanksgiving | Tagged Carole Lombard, Children of Israel, Clark Gable, Exodus, Marilyn Monroe, Pilgrim Identification with Jews, Thanksgiving, Vera Allen | 11 Responses

Hamas Dead Baby Strategy

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: July 22, 2014

The Christian community in Mosul have been given the choice to pay an exorbitant tax, convert to Islam — or die. In response, thousands of Christians are fleeing Mosul with little more than the clothes on their backs. Their valuables are being systematically looted by the IslamoNazis, who are establishing a caliphate in lands that were […]

Also posted in Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Judaism, Muslim anti-Semitism, Operation Protective Edge, Propaganda War | Tagged Arab Christians, Michael Oren, Mosul, PalNazis, Persecution of Arab Christians | 7 Responses

Obama’s Perversion of Religious Liberty and Persecution of Religious People

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: February 3, 2014

Freedom of religion. We take it for granted. This past Friday evening, Karen lit candles, ushering in Shabbat.. Openly wearing my kippah,, I walked to shul and prayed with scores of friends and neighbors. After prayers, Karen and I sat down to a joyous dinner where we sang Shabbat songs and expressed gratitude to G-d for […]

Also posted in Jew-haters, Judaism, Obama Watch, Obamacare | Tagged Christian Jew-hatred, Goldene Medina, HHS Mandates, Hobby Lobby, Jehova's Witnesses, Liberal Facism, Little Sisters of the Poor, Mona Charen, NRO, Pale of Settlement, Rabbi Abraham Avrech, Rabbi Shmuel Avrech, Religious Liberty | 12 Responses

Passover: Liberty, Then and Now

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: March 22, 2013

Seraphic Secret rises at 5 a.m for a morning walk. The streets are empty save for the chug-chug-chugging of the pick-up trucks delivering newspapers. Sprinklers hiss, and lawns glisten. The air is lightly perfumed with jacaranda. I listen to a news round-up and feel—there is no way around this—sad and defeated.

Also posted in Judaism, Maayan Ariel, Obamacare, Passover, Remembering Ariel | Tagged Shabbat | 39 Responses

More Ch-Ch-Changes and C-C-Confessions: A Unique American Moment in Jewish-Christian Relations

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 16, 2013

The response to yesterday’s post was both surprising and gratifying. The comments by our readers are so insightful, so profoundly moving that Seraphic Secret is using today’s post to answer all the lovely comments. We have reached a unique moment in history. And by we, I mean Torah Jews — Jews who observe the rules […]

Posted in Judaism & Christianity | Tagged Michael Medved, Pastor John Hagee, Pope John Paul | 50 Responses

Ch-Ch-Changes, Plus Personal C-C-Confessions

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

Adam Corolla has a wonderful and important new video for Prager University about the amazing, and oh-so-necessary human capacity for change. First the video, and then a personal confession. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9G3xufj3Z4[/youtube] Once upon a time I used to believe some pretty foolish things. Jewish, lower-middle class, born and bred in Brooklyn, my family were (and many […]

Posted in Judaism & Christianity | Tagged Adam Corolla, David Bowie Changes, Karen Singer Avrech, Prager University | 32 Responses

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.
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Memorial Lectures
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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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