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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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Memorial Day: 2019

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My father, Rabbi Abraham Avrech, 42nd Div. U.S. Army, Colonel, Ret., conducts services during the Korean War.
My father, Chaplain Rabbi Abraham Avrech, z’l  (1919-2014) U.S. Army, 42nd Div., Colonel, Ret., conducts services during the Korean War.

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.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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Tuesday Weld was Stanley Kubrick’s first choice for Lolita, but she turned him down, later claiming “I didn’t have to play it. I was Lolita.”’

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions, Doris Day RIP

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“It was the only ambition I ever had — not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.”
—Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff, 1922-2019)

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Do it big, do it right and do it with style.”
—Fred Astaire

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Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism

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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks explains that antisemitism is a virus that has mutated over time and why its return today presents a danger not just for Jews, but for all who care about our common humanity.