Category Archives: Shavuot

By Robert J. Avrech | May 18, 2018

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Ann Miller, Art, Brigitte Bardot, Coleen Gray, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jewish Holidays, Judaica, Judaism, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Rick McGinnis, Susan Hayward, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Ann Miller, Arthur Szyk, Brigitte Bardot, Coleen Gray, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Edward Hopper, Greta Garbo, Milton Avery, Myrna Loy, Norman Rockwell, Rick McGinnis, Susan Hayward, Vintage Cars | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 9, 2016

The Story of Ruth Reenacted 100 Years Ago in Israel

Tweet The Jewish holiday of Shavuot, Pentecost, begins this coming Saturday night. The holiday has several traditional names: Shavuot, the festival of weeks, marking seven weeks after Passover; Chag HaKatzir, the festival of reaping grains, and Chag HaBikkurim, the festival of first fruits. Shavuot, according to Jewish tradition, is the day the Children of Israel accepted the Torah […]

Also posted in Israel, Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Photography | Tagged American Colony, Boaz, Book of Ruth, Library of Congress, Naomi, Pentecost | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 14, 2013

Obama’s Lack of Leadership and Moral Accountability

Tweet Here’s Barack Hussein Obama reacting to the three scandals that are poised to engulf the balance of his second term: 1. Benghazi is a “sideshow.” 2. Political repression of Conservatives by the IRS was committed by “low-level staffers.” 3. Regarding government wiretaps on the AP: “I’m shocked.”

Also posted in Benghazigate, IRS, Obama Watch, Obamacare | Tagged Moral Accountability, Nixon, Obama Liar, Operation Nickel Grass, Political Repression | 17 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 7, 2011

The Sweet Smell of Shavuot

Tweet Tweet You shall count for yourselves—from the day after the Shabbat, from the day when you bring the Omer of the waving—seven Shabbats, they shall be complete. Until the day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count, fifty days… You shall convoke on this very day—there shall be a holy convocation for yourselves—you shall […]

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Robert J. Avrech
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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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Fifteenth: June 10, 2018
Jackie Danicki: “Confessions of a Convert: A Humbling, Joyful Journey to Judaism.”

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Fourteenth: June 11, 2017
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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