Category Archives: Maayan Ariel

By Robert J. Avrech | August 11, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Actors, America, Art, Automobiles, Brigitte Bardot, Design, Edward Hopper, Family, Fashion, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaica, Judaism, Lielle Meital, Livia Yarden, Marilyn Monroe, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Quotes, True Hollywood Confessions, Vivien Leigh | Tagged Brigitte Bardot, Claude Monet, Czech Movie Posters, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Hans Holbein the Younger, Harold Eugene Edgerton, Irving Penn, Janet Leigh, Lee Remick, Marilyn Monroe, movie posters, Myrna Loy, Philippe Halsman, R.B. Kitaj, Red Cross Motor Corps, Rick McGinnis, Rita Hayworth, Tatsuya Tanaka, Vintage Cars, Virgil Apger | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 4, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Family, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Israel, Judaica, Lielle Meital, Painting, Photography, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged August Sander, Dennis Stock, Diane Arbus, Dovima, Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Eugene Jansson, Gerrit Dou, Gerrit Dous, Hans Memling, John Cleese, Margaret Hamilton, Melissa Kretschmer, Oded Bality, Ori Resheff, Rashomon, Renoir, Richard Avedon, Salomon Mesdach, Sean Connery, The Simpsons, Veronica Lake, Vivian Maier, Wayne Miller | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 8, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Actors, Art, Edith Head, Errol Flynn, Family, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Fontaine, Lielle Meital, Marlon Brando, Movie Posters, Movies, Olivia De Havilland, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Silent Movies, They Died With Their Boots On, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charlie Chaplin, Deborah Kerr, Dinner at Eight, Edith Head, Edvard Munch, Edward Hopper, Errol Flynn, Jean Harlow, Joan Fontaine, Lenore Coffee, Leon Berkowitz, Marie Dressler, Marlon Brando, Noel Neill, Olivia de Havilland, Sabine Weiss, Sari Srulovitch, Smith & Wesson, They Died, Tiffany and Co., To Each His Own, W. Eugene Smith, Wally Kline, Æneas MacKenzie | 19 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 19, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions, Self-Portraits, Early Selfies

Also posted in Art, Friday Fotos, Grace Kelly, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Lillian Gish, Movies, Painting, Photography, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Photography, Signs, Quotes, Russia, Self-Portrait, Seraphic Secret, Shabbos, Silent Movies, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Annabel Carracci, Catharina van Hemessen, Claude Cahun, Edward Hopper, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, Elliott Erwitt, Felix Nussbaum, Frédéric Boissonnas, Grace Kelly, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, Gustave Courbet, Henri Matisse, Ilse Bing, John Gilbert, Lillian Gish, Mayan Ariel, Nobuyoshi Araki, Nussbaum Haus, Pablo Picasso, Parmigianino, Pieter Claesz, Self Portraits, Selfies`, Vincent van Gogh, Vivian Maier | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 23, 2015

Friday Photos: Mood Board

Tweet This morning, after Daf Yomi, my friend turned to me and said: “Some week, huh?” I said: “It seems that every week is some week.” “Yeah.” On that downer, let’s try and alter the mood with some photos and stories.

Also posted in Friday Footwear, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Holocaust, Jewish Photography, Livia Yarden, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Nolan, Movies, Photography | Tagged art, Buchenwald, Desert Nights, Eddie Mannix, Elizabeth Taylor, Erich von Stroheim, I Was an Adventuress, Indian Cinema, John Singer Sargent, Lon Chaney, Mary Nolan, Peter Lorre, Richard Greene, Seeta Devi, shul, synagogue, Tekhelet, The Light of Asia, Two White Dresses, West of Zanzibar, Zorina | 19 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 29, 2014

Sisters

Tweet Browsing through the day’s news made Seraphic Secret feel sad. An eleven-year-old Jewish girl in Israel suffered third-degree burns over 50 percent of her body after PalNazis hurled a Molotov cocktail at her parents’ car. At the same time, the PalNazis, who enjoy overwhelming support among the oh-so-civilized barbarians of the EU, are studying an online video that gives detailed […]

Also posted in Family, Ferguson Riots, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, Lielle Meital, Obama Watch, PalNazis | Tagged Family Life, Family Photography, How to Stab a Jew to Death, Jewish Girl Burned by PalNazis, PalNazis | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 12, 2014

Friday Photos: Just Because the World is Still Burning…

Tweet It’s been another terrible, horrible very bad week with the release of a Democrat, ahem, study, that seeks to persecute President George W. Bush and the CIA for their efforts to protect America against genocidal IslamoNazis. The Democrat Senate report is a lynching, just as the Ferguson riots are lynch mobs, and just as […]

Also posted in Audrey Hepburn, Clark Gable, Fashion, Friday Footwear, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Jews of Samarkand, Judaism, Lielle Meital, Marilyn Monroe, Obama Watch, Photography, Photography, Family, Girls Love Footwear | Tagged art, Irving Penn, James Nares, Jewish Children in Samarkand, John F. Peto, Karen, Lielle Meital, Ma'ayan Ariel, Monk Strap Shoes, North Korea Hacks Sony, Painting, Red Dust, Sony Studios, Utagawa Hiroshige, Wayne F. Miller | 8 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, Judaism & Christianity, Obamacare, Passover, Remembering Ariel | Tagged Shabbat | 39 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 14, 2012

Friday Fashion: Mayan Ariel Super Styling for Rosh Hashanah

Tweet Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins Sunday evening. It is traditional to greet the New Year with some new outfits. Maayan’s adorable dress reflects a discernible trend towards a return to patterns.

Also posted in Family, Friday Fashion, Friday Footwear, Rosh Hashanah | Tagged leopard print shoes, Mary Katrantzou, Old Navy, Prints, Toms | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 31, 2012

Friday Photos: Maayan Ariel

Tweet It’s been quite a week. The RNC took center stage with a powerful message calling for a return to constitutional values, support for Israel, and a resounding rejection of the collectivist, big government tyranny being imposed by the current, extremist regime. Hurricane Isaac brought disaster to some communities in the Big Easy, while Obama […]

Also posted in 2012 Election, Brigitte Bardot, Friday Fotos, Labor Day | Tagged A Life, Elia Kazan, Labor Day, Shabbat, The Mouthpiece, Warren Williams | 13 Responses

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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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Fourteenth: June 11, 2016
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

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Thirteenth: May 22, 2016
Ben Shapiro: “How You Can Save Israel”

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Twelfth: June 7, 2015
Larry Elder: “The New Black Anti-Semitism”

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Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”

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Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”

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Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”

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Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”

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Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”

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Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: “Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?”

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Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: “What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania.”

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