How I Married Karen
- 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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Larry Elder: “The New Black Anti-Semitism”
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Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”
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David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”
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Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”
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Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”
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Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”
Blog Post | Audio (mp3 80MB)Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: “Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?”
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
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
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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
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World Series 2017 and the Social Contract
The 2017 World Series between the Huston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers is one of the most exciting and evenly matched pairings I have ever seen.
Each game is an exercise in Hitchcockian suspense.
Posted in America, Baseball
Tagged Bruce Maxwell, Huston Astros, Leftism, Los Angeles Dodgers, Social Justice Warriors, World Series 2017
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Jews With and Without Guns
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
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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.
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Posted in Feminism, Prager University, Second Amendment
Tagged Gun Rights, Katie Pavlich, Women's Rights
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Seraphic Secret in Israel, 2017
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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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?
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
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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.
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
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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.