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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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“Anyone can do well. It’s all out there waiting for you to take. But first you must reach out and get it. You must work for your riches. You cannot expect it to fall into your lap.”
— Cary Grant

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Chanukah 2021: The Ongoing War

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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 2021: The Ongoing War

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I tend to be a glass-half-full person most of the time. We don’t get to choose the outcome of our endeavors, but any challenge is ultimately a learning experience whether it’s successful or not.”
—Julie Andrews (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1935 – )

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“It will be fun to be the first Jewish queen of Egypt.”
—Elizabeth Taylor on playing Cleopatra. Her comment caused outrage in Egypt.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding.”
—Raquel Welsh (born Jo Raquel Tejada; 1940- )

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