Seraphic Secret | Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Religious Zionist. Republican. Movie fanatic. Gun owner. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

By Robert J. Avrech | February 9, 2012

Three More Notable War Movies

One of the greatest war movies ever produced was “The Big Parade,” 1925, starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée.

As we noted last week stories about war are, perhaps, the best, most natural material for the movies.

Because war is a constant in human history and because war brings out the best and worst in man, every country that has a movie industry will, sooner or later, produce a body of war movies that reflects a particular national experience. Here, Seraphic Secret introduces three more films that represent very different visions.

By Robert J. Avrech | February 8, 2012

Official Iranian Doctrine: “Kill All Jews And Annihilate Israel!”

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has outlined the religious justification on why it is acceptable to kill all Jews and annihilate Israel. But remember, this has nothing to do with Islam.

The prime lesson of Jewish history can be summed up like this: When someone says they are going to kill you, believe them.

If you ignore the threats, if you minimize the threats, if you make excuses or justify the threats you are enabling genocidiers.

The IslamoNazis of Iran have been killing Jews and Americans ever since they came to power—thanks a lot Jimmy Carter. America has never responded properly to this rogue nation’s terrorist acts. Even as Iranian Revolutionary Guards flooded Iraq with new and deadly IED’s, America has turned a blind eye. And just a few weeks ago, when an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador on U.S. soil was uncovered, the Obama administration expressed mild dismay and then let the matter drop.

Posted in Iran, Islamic Terror, Israel | Tagged Alireza Forghani, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, IslamoNazis, Jimmy Carter, Nuclear Iran | 8 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | February 7, 2012

100,000 Christians Have Fled Egypt Since Arab Winter

Muslims burn another Copt church in Egypt. The mob chanted “Allahu Akhbar” but remember, it's got nothing to do with Islam.

The centerpiece of Obama’s foreign policy was, as he stated quite clearly at the advent of his administration, outreach to the Muslim world and by implication a chilling of realtions with israel.

At his speech in Cairo, Obama invited representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood to attend. They were given front row seats. This was a signal to the Arab Muslim world that Obama was respectful of an organization whose stated goal is a transnational caliphate with the imposition of sharia, and the annihilation of all Jews, Christians and assorted infidels.

Obama refused to support the Green movement in Iran, thereby enabling and propping up the totalitarian Islamist regime.

Posted in Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, Obama Watch | Tagged American Catholics, Freedom of Religion, Libya, Obama's Foreign Policy, Persecution of Copts, Syria | 5 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | February 6, 2012

Israel Warns US Jews: Iran Could Strike Here

Several years ago, two Los Angeles synagogues were targeted for terrorist attacks by Islamist inmates of a California prison. Luckily, the murderous plot was thwarted by the authorities. Ever since then, most Los Angeles synagogues, Jewish schools and institutions have hired security guards, installed gates and surveillance systems. I know several well-trained men who carry side arms to synagogue every Shabbat.

Of course, the threats to the Jewish community by Islamists will always percolate. That’s just the nature of the IslamoNazi beast. But now, a new warning has been issued regarding soft targets in America from the terrorist state of Iran.

Situational awareness in all Jewish communities should be finely honed.

Israeli facilities in North America — and around the world — are on high alert, according to an internal security document obtained by ABC News that predicted the threat from Iran against Jewish targets will increase.

Posted in Iran, Islamic Terror, Israel, Israel Defense Forces | Tagged Gun Ownership, IslamoNazis, Jew-hatred, Jews and Guns | 11 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | February 3, 2012

Friday Fotos: Hollywood Stars and Their Cars

Freedom: Marilyn, Lincoln, a convertible, and the open road.

America has long had a love affair with the automobile. Cars are the ultimate expression of form, function, fashion—and speed.

But most of all the car represents freedom.

Try and remember when you were a teenager yearning for your driver’s license so you could hop into daddy’s car and go, go, go. It didn’t matter where, you just wanted to burn rubber and escape into the far horizon.

The brilliant, exhilirating and touching American Grafitti, 1973, is the ultimate expression of American car culture. Almost every single scene takes place in a car.

Los Angeles was the first America city built to accomodate the automobile. And the movie stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, most born dirt-poor, expressed delight in their sudden prosperity and fame by purchasing and posing with their dream machines.

Posted in Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Stars and Cars | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Cadillac, Clark Gable, Deusenberg, Friday Fotos, Hollywood on Wheels, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe, Packard, Pierce Arrow, Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, Stepin Fetchit, Tyrone Power | 7 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | February 2, 2012

Three Notable War Movies

It makes perfect sense that the first epic American movie was about war, “Birth of a Nation,” 1915.

There is no subject as well suited for the movies as war.

In war there is conflict, love, and of course lots of explosions. Movies, someone once said, are just like life—with the boring parts cut out. Thus, movies about war delete the incredible boredom of most war-time experiences in favor of the hyper-drama that characterizes training, combat, and the bursts of romance and friendship that invariably help define characters within a blasted landscape.

Seraphic Secret would like to draw your attention to three spectacular if obscure war movies. Each film seethes with a specific national and regional point of view. And yet war and man’s experiences in war are universal, and each film left yours truly horrified, enlightened and deeply moved.

Posted in Military, Movies, War, War Movies | Tagged Birth of a Nation, City of Life and Death, Come and See, Ride With The Devil, War Movies | 48 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | February 1, 2012

Pal Arab Children “Created To Be Fertilizer”

Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland put on a show.

Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland famously cried out: “Hey kids let’s put on a show!”

Well, the Pal Arabs do the exact same thing.

Except not so much.

A few days ago we posted a video of American-supported Palestinian TV celebrating the slaughter of five members of the Fogel family. Of course, this medieval blood lust is not confined to the Pal Arabs. Hatred of Jews is a cornerstone of Arab Muslim political and religious ethos, Sunni and Shia.

Posted in Islamic Terror, Israel, Palestinian Media Watch | Tagged Arab Child Abuse, Child Abuse, Fatah, IslamoNazis, Judy garland, Los Angeles Jewish Journal, Medieval Blood Lust, MIckey Rooney, PalArabs, Rob Eshman | 6 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | January 31, 2012

Nuclear Iran: Don’t Trust The Europeans To Get It Right

This is an incredibly powerful video of the brilliant and erudite British Conservative Douglas Murray speaking at Cambridge about a nuclear Iran. It’s eleven minutes long and builds to an incredible pitch of logic and emotion. Stay with it.

Allow me to underline several of Murray’s most important points:

Posted in Iran, Israel | Tagged Cambridge Debating Society, Douglas Murray, IslamoNazis, Nuclear Iran | 13 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | January 30, 2012

Entertainment Palestinian Style: PA Airs Show Praising ‘Hero’ Murderers Of Fogel Family

Massacred by Arab Muslim terrorists because they were Jews: Top: Ruth and Ehud Fogel. Bottom: Eldad, 4, Yoav, 11, and Hadas, 3 months who was decapitated.

Last night, while Karen and I were suffering through another wretched episode of Season Two of Downton Abbey—how the mighty have fallen and fallen and fallen—the Palestinians were having a fabulous time watching their hit TV show in which the slaughter of Jews is celebrated as family entertainment, albeit without Downton Abbey’s still-great costumes.

I have to admit that no level of barbarism coming from the Arab Muslim world surprises me. That Palestinians murder Jews is a given. That the U.S. funded Palestinian Authority glorifies the slaughter of Jewish children is also a given.

But for the Israeli government to legitmize this genocidal yearning Islamist enterprise through the agency of negotiations is not just unbelievable but unbelievably stupid.

What is Israel negotiating?

Posted in Islamic Terror, Israel | Tagged Downton Abbey, Fogel Family Massacre, IslamoNazis, Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinian TV | 4 Comments

By Robert J. Avrech | January 29, 2012

How To Speak To Muslims

Mordechai Kedar, formerly of the Intelligence Division of the IDF speaks Arabic fluently. Further, he understands that the Judeo Christian civilization and the world of Islam might as well be on different planets. Dr. Kedar speaks forcefully to the Arab-Muslim world without apology or appeasement. When he’s featured on Arab media, he leaves the Muslim propagandists in the dust, refusing to be just another useful fool to transnational jihad.

H/T Israel Matzav

Posted in Islamic Terror, Israel, Media | 7 Comments

About Me
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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