Category Archives: Judaism

By Robert J. Avrech | November 29, 2013

Judah Maccabee Wants You to Man-Up

Tweet Before Judah the Maccabee and his pitifully small band of 3,000 men went to battle against the great armies of the Selecuid empire, Judah assembeled his troops and gave them a rousing speech. This excerpt, from the Book of Maccabees, gives you an idea of the noble and pious rhetoric Judah used to inspire his […]

Also posted in Chanukah, Israel | Tagged Consercative values, Judah Maccabee, Menorah, Selecuid empire, The Jewish Temple rededicated, The Miracle of Chanukah | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 19, 2013

Confessions of a Shomer Shabbos Hollywood Screenwriter

Tweet Act I: Exposition—In Which the Main Characters and Primary Drama Are Introduced It’s Shabbat morning. I’m in synagogue, praying, where an undertone of chatter is definitely not the norm. For me, a frum-from-birth screenwriter, this synagogue, where my wife and I have been members since we moved to Los Angeles from Brooklyn, is my […]

Also posted in Devil's Arithmetic, Hollywood, Screenwriting | Tagged A Stranger Among Us, Brittany Murphy, Eric Thal, Kirsten Dunst, Melanie Griffith, Social Propaganda | 37 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 9, 2013

Jew-Hating Comic Book: Foreskin Man

Tweet As a follow up to our post the other day about progressive, anti-circumcision groups, here are a few panels from a comic book published by members of that movement in California. Brace yourselves, this is deeply anti-Semitic imagery, reminiscent of the hate propaganda used by the Nazis, and currently a daily diet in the […]

Also posted in Circumcision, Jew-haters | Tagged Anti-Brit Milah movement, Foreskin Man, Intact movement, Liberal Facism, Nazi Propaganda, Progressive Tyranny, San Francisco, Santa Monica | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 13, 2013

Yom Kippur, 2013

Tweet …In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and you shall not do any work … For on that day he shall provide atonement for you to cleanse you from all your sins before the L-RD. —Leviticus 16:29-30

Also posted in Israel, Jerusalem, Yom Kippur | Tagged Little Kotel, Little Western Wall | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 10, 2013

The Story of the Jews

Tweet Even on the eve of destruction, Jews took to heart a verse from the Torah (Deut 30:19) “I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse, therefore choose life that you and your descendants may live.” This is the story of how Jews lived amidst Muslims and Christians, and how they tried […]

Also posted in Christian anti-Semitism, Muslim anti-Semitism, Torah | Tagged Ferdinand, Isabella, Joseph Ibn Hayyim, Kennicott Bible, Moses Ibn Zabara, Simon Schama | 2 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | April 23, 2013

Understanding the Islamic Boston Massacre

Tweet “Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels.” —Koran 8:60 H/T Joshua Pundit This 11 minute video is solid and refreshingly informative. In it, you will learn a good deal of what you need to know, and everything the mainstream media and craven politicians refuse to acknowledge, about Islamic terrorism. It should be […]

Also posted in Boston Marathon Terror Attack, Islam, Islamic Terror, Obama Watch | Tagged Congressman Keith Ellison, Taqiyya and Kitman | 17 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | March 22, 2013

Passover: Liberty, Then and Now

Tweet 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 & Christianity, Maayan Ariel, Obamacare, Passover, Remembering Ariel | Tagged Shabbat | 39 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 24, 2013

Gun Confiscation in Australia: How’s That Working Out?

Tweet Take a look at what’s happening in Australia as the anti-gun fanatics move towards a complete weapons ban for private citizens. It doesn’t take a genius to recognize that good citizens will hand over their weapons rather than stand in violation of the law and go to jail. Criminals then take advantage of the […]

Also posted in Gun Control, Jews & Guns, Obama Watch, Second Amendment | Tagged Australia, Gun Control | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 18, 2012

Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton Argue Judaism

Tweet Liz and Dick. Married, divorced, then married again and divorced once more, they were Hollywood’s greatest power couple since Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Paparazzi followed their every move. Their lavish lifestyle made headlines across the globe. Richard Burton, the son of an alcoholic Welsh miner, and Elizabeth Taylor, Hollywood’s greatest star, made […]

Also posted in Elizabeth Taylor, Hollywood, Israel | Tagged Cleopatra, Conversion to Judaism, Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher, Hollywood Jews, Mike Todd, Richard Burton | 21 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | March 1, 2010

From Jew Hater to Orthodox Jew

Tweet Pawel in the Warsaw synagogue. A former truck driver and neo-Nazi skinhead, Pawel, 33, has since become an Orthodox Jew, covering his shaved head with a yarmulke and shedding his fascist ideology for the Torah. No less than half-a-dozen readers forwarded this wonderful story. When Pawel looks into the mirror, he can still sometimes […]

Posted in Judaism | 23 Responses

How I Married Karen

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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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Annual Ariel Avrech
Memorial Lectures
Young Israel of Century City

Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: "The War Against Judaism on the University Campus." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 16MB)

Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: "The Mainstream Media's Betrayal of Israel." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 15MB)

Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: "What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 18MB)

Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: "Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 80MB)

Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: "Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?" Blog Post | Audio (mp3 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 (mp3 70MB)
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