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By Robert J. Avrech | November 3, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

“The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually agent, actor, director, producer, leading man. And you are a star if you sleep with them in that order. Crude but true.”
—Hedy Lamarr

Posted in Art, Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marlene Dietrich, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Veronica Lake, Vertigo | Tagged Alternative Movie Posters, Anne Frank, Art Deco, Art Deco Radios, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edward Hopper, Frans van Mieris, Gerard ter Borch, Johannes Vermeer, Kim Novak, Marlene Dietrich, Moira Dryer, Myrna Loy, Photography, Rear Window, Rick McGinnis, The Birds, Utagawa Kunisada, Veronica Lake | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 1, 2017

Vehicle Attacks: What Begins With the Jews

Investigators inspect a truck used by an IslamoNazi to mow down cyclists and pedestrians yesterday in New York, October 31, 2017 (AFP Photo/Don Emmert)

On 14 February 2001, an IslamoNazi from Gaza drove a bus into a group of Israeli soldiers who stood at a bus stop at the Azor junction, killing 8 people and injuring 26 others.

This was the first case of a vehicle being used by IslamoNazis as a tool of terrorism. The world yawned because after all the victims were soldiers and thus considered fair game for the poor oppressed IslamoNazis.

But of course once the left legitimized the killing of Jewish soldiers, the definition of acceptable targets was bound to expand to, well, everyone.

For years, Seraphic Secret has warned that Jews/Israel is the canary in the coal mine of civilization.

Posted in America, Islam, Islam Denial, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel | Tagged Azor Junction, Car Rammings, Islam, IslamoNazis, Israel, Lower Manhattan, Victims | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 27, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

“The main problem in marriage is that for a man sex is a hunger like eating. If the man is hungry and can’t get to a fancy French restaurant, he goes to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what is important is love and romance.”
—Joan Fontaine

Posted in Art, Brigitte Bardot, Family, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Fontaine, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, Quotes, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Alternative Posters, Andrea Vaccaro, Art Deco, Bette Davis, Brigitte Bardot, Charles Sheeler, Dennis Stock, Edward Hopper, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Joan Fontaine, Johannes Vermeer, Mark Rothko, Master of the Story of Joseph, Paul Strand, Picasso, Quentin Metsys, Tatsuya Tanaka, Vermeer, Vintage Cars, Willy Ronis | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 25, 2017

Jews With and Without Guns

My brother-in-law David with his Glock.

When Karen and I were in Israel we were comforted by the presence everywhere of Jews with guns. Karen’s brother David, an accomplished lawyer, Rabbi and businessman, carries his Glock nearly everywhere.

David is a good man. Thus, he is a good man with a gun.

The reason he carries a gun—and is licensed to do so in the Jewish state—is because there are millions of bad men and women, IslamoNazis, who seek to kill every Jew in Israel, every Jew on the face of the earth.

The only defense against a bad man with a weapon—any weapon—is a good man with a weapon.

Posted in IslamoNazis, Israel, Jew Without A Gun, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, Second Amendment | Tagged Glock, Jews and Guns, Second Amendment, Smith & Wesson | Leave a comment

By Robert J. Avrech | October 23, 2017

Gun Rights Are Women’s Rights

The right to bear arms isn’t just a constitutional issue — it’s a women’s rights issue. Author and commentator Katie Pavlich explains why guns are the great equalizer between men and women.
Donate today to PragerU! http://l.prageru.com/2eB2p0h

Posted in Feminism, Prager University, Second Amendment | Tagged Gun Rights, Katie Pavlich, Women's Rights | 3 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 20, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

“Too many divorces for so small a town. But then you mustn’t forget that Hollywood is a hard place to be happy unless you’re so absorbed in your work that you haven’t time to get into mischief. I do believe what I say when I tell you that no married person should leave husband or wife alone in Hollywood. There’s too much temptation. Think of all the charming, intelligent people out there.”
– Dolores del Rio

Posted in Actors, Art, Arthur Szyk, Brigitte Bardot, Dolores del Rio, Dovima, Friday Fotos, Greta Garbo, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Ingrid Bergman, Judaica, Judaism, Milton Avery, Movie Posters, Movie Star Ads, Quotes, Star Ads | Tagged Alternative Movie Posters, Arthur Szyk, Bette Davis, Dolores Del Rio, Dovima, Greta Garbo, John Ford, Lauren Bacall, Milton Avery, Miniature Calendar, Pieter de Hooch, Richard Avedon, Rick McGinnis, Tatsuya Tanaka, Vintage Cars | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 19, 2017

Seraphic Secret in Israel, 2017

Fearlessly, Karen makes her way through the Arab souk towards the Kotel.

Karen and I spent the last days of Succos in Israel. Mostly we stayed in Efrat with Karen’s brother David and his lovely family. But we did manage to spend one day in Jerusalem where we headed straight to the holy Kotel, the Western Wall, the remnants of the Second Temple.

Posted in Ariel Chaim Avrech, Israel, Jerusalem, Western Wall | Tagged Israel, Kotel, Western Wall | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 18, 2017

Roman Theater Uncovered at Base of Jerusalem’s Western Wall

Israel’s Antiquities Authority’s Tehillah Lieberman stands in an ancient Roman theater-like structure at the Western Wall tunnels in Jerusalem’s old city, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. Israeli archaeologists have announced the discovery of the first known Roman-era theater in Jerusalem’s Old City, a unique 1,800-year-old structure abutting the Western Wall that is believed to have been built during Roman Emperor Hadrian’s reign. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists on Monday announced the discovery of the first known Roman-era theater in Jerusalem’s Old City, a unique structure around 1,800 years old that abuts the Western Wall and may have been built during Roman Emperor Hadrian’s reign.

Posted in Israel, Jerusalem, Western Wall | Tagged Archeology, Israel, King Herod, Kotel, Roman Era, Tehillah Lieberman, Temple Mount, Western Wall | 1 Response

By Robert J. Avrech | October 16, 2017

The “Anti-Hate” Group That Is a Hate Group

The Southern Poverty Law Center bills itself as a watchdog of hate groups. But is this just a cover for its true aims? Journalist and author Karl Zinsmeister explains. Donate today to PragerU! http://l.prageru.com/2eB2p0h

Posted in Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Democrat Fascists, Democrats, Prager University | Tagged Charles Murray, Establishment Media, Hate, Karl Zinsmeister, Mark Potok, Middlebury College, Southern Poverty Law Center | Leave a comment

By Robert J. Avrech | October 11, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

“Keaton had a great influence on me. A lot of his moves I intuitively copied in doing some numbers. I know I was thinking of him when I did a dance with a squeaky board and a newspaper. I didn’t look like him, but I often wish I did. He was a complete genius, and there was a lot of dance inherent in his movements.”
—Gene Kelly

Once again Friday Photos appears on Wednesday due to the last days of Sukkot which begin tonight and then run into Shabbat. Enjoy!

Posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Betty Grable, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Still Photography, Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, Quotes, True Hollywood Confessions, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Allan Grant, Alternative Movie Posters, Bernard Picart, Betty Grable, Buster Keaton, Edward Hopper, Efrat, Eileen Gray, Eugene Robert Richee, Gail Patrick, Gene Kelly, Gerrit Dou, Hendrick Terbrugghen, Hoshana Rabbah, Louise Brooks, Morgan Auto, Picasso, Preston Sturges, Richard Avedon, Richard Burton, Rick McGinnis, Robert Doisneau, Simchat Torah, Sukkot, To Catch a Thief | 2 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 9, 2017

Gender Identity: Why All the Confusion?

Are male and female one and the same? Or are there real male-female differences rooted in biology? Ashley McGuire, author of “Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female,” explains.

Posted in Prager University | Tagged Gender, Gender Confusion, Gender Identity, Men and Women | Leave a comment

By Robert J. Avrech | October 4, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

“Last night I was awake all night again. Sometimes I wonder what the nighttime is for. It almost doesn’t exist for me—it all seems like one long, long horrible day.”
—Marilyn Monroe, Letter to her psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, 1961

No, you have not fallen into a time warp. It is Wednesday. So: why Friday Photos today? The celebration of Succos starts tonight and continues into Shabbat. And because Orthodox Jews (that’s us) do not use electronics during these holidays you get Friday Photos early. We hope you enjoy this edition.

Posted in Art, Brigitte Bardot, Cary Grant, Family, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Photography, Quotes, Sandra Dee, Succos, True Hollywood Confessions, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters | Tagged Alternative Movie Posters, Bernard Palissy, Cary Grant, Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun, Follow the Fleet, Ginger Rogers, Horst P. Horst, Marilyn Monroe, Myrna Loy, Sandra Dee, Shabbat, Succos | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 3, 2017

Evil on the Vegas Strip

And so here we are. Again.

The Las Vegas massacre is not, as the media habitually labels such incidents, a tragedy.

This is an atrocity.

Posted in America, Hillary Clinton, ISIS, IslamoNazis, Judaism, Las Vegas Massacre, Screenwriting, Second Amendment, Sol Teichman, Torah | Tagged Donald Trump, Evil, Guns, Hillary Clinton, Human Nature, Las Vegas Massacre, Leftist Racism, Lydia Polgreen, Ramban, Silencers, Stephen Paddock | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 2, 2017

Undercover in Antifa

What happens when two guys infiltrate Antifa, live amongst them for weeks, and take part in their deeply rooted tactics of disruption and violence?

Posted in America, Antifa, Democrat Fascists | Tagged Steven Crowder | 3 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 29, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

“Marilyn was a very calculating girl. She was never late on our set, I’ll tell you that. She was trying to get me to go to bed with her while she was trying to get Howard [Hawks, the director] to do the same thing! We both knew it and—I can speak only for myself—it turned me off. Completely.”
—Cary Grant via An Affair to Remember by Maureen Donaldson and William Royce
Marilyn Monroe and Cary Grant in a scene from Monkey Business, 1952.

Posted in Art, Cary Grant, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Fontaine, Marilyn Monroe, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Quotes, Sophia Loren | Tagged Alternative Posters, Bernard Perlin, Cary Grant, Herbert Dombrowski, Joan Fontaine, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lorser Feitelson, Marilyn Monroe, Maureen Donalsdon, Meredith Frampton, Rear Window, Suspicion, Vertigo, Vintage | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 27, 2017

The Weak Link in the Iran Nuclear Deal

We seem to be preoccupied with a bunch of dimwit football players who hate America and insist on displaying contempt for the American flag.

Posted in America, Culture Wars, Iran | Tagged Dore Gold, NFL, North Korea | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 25, 2017

Prager U: Does Israel Discriminate Against Arabs?

Does Israel discriminate against Arabs? Is it today’s version of apartheid South Africa? Olga Meshoe, herself a South African whose family experienced apartheid, settles the question once and for all. Donate today to PragerU! http://l.prageru.com/2eB2p0h

Posted in BDS Movement, Holocaust, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Prager University | Tagged Apartheid, BDS Movement, College Campuses, IDF, Israel, Israeli Arabs, Lies, Olga Meshoe, South Africa | Leave a comment

By Robert J. Avrech | September 20, 2017

Early Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Because Rosh Hashanah begins tonight, then turns into Shabbat, and I do not blog on Jewish holidays, I am publishing Friday Photos early.

“I’ve always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don’t.” —Claudette Colbert

Posted in Art, Brigitte Bardot, Claudette Colbert, Friday Fashion, Friday Footwear, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Lauren Bacall, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Rosh Hashanah, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Claude Monet, George Hendrik Breitner, Harry Dean Stanton, Hilma af Klint, Julie Christie, Lauren Bacall, Martin Mukacsi, Norman Parkinson, Randall Knives, Richard Avedon, Rick McGinnis, Tatsuya Tanaka, William Merritt Chase | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 19, 2017

Prager U: Are Some Cultures Better Than Others?

Are some cultures better than others? Or are all cultures and their values equal? Bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza, who was born in India and moved to America, explains.

Posted in Art, Donald Trump, Prager University | Tagged Capitalism, Civilization, colonialism, Culture Wars, Dinesh D'Souza, Judeo-Christian values, Multi-Ethnic Society, Multiculturalism, Saul Bellow, Slavery, The American Dream, Uniquely Western, Values | 1 Response

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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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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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