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By Robert J. Avrech | November 12, 2014

Heroic IslamoNazi Jew-Killers and Their Enablers

Victims of what official Palestinian Authority media organs call “heroic operations”: Left, Dalia Lemkus, 26, run over and then stabbed to death by a terrorist on Nov. 10. Right: Three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun, murdered on Oct. 23 when a terrorist rammed his car into her stroller. Several other victims were killed or injured in these attacks.

The IslamoNazis who call themselves Palestinians are not members of a nationality. They are members of a profession.

This profession is, first and foremost, the pathological hatred of Jews. It matters not if Jews live in Israel, Brooklyn, Stockholm, Paris or London. Jew-hatred is the common core of the IslamoNazis.

For the moment, these barbarians justify their savagery by blaming a so-called occupation. But anyone who has been paying attention remembers when this genocidal Jew-hatred was directed at Israel before the 1967 war, the so-called occupation and even well before 1948. It has been going on for more than a century.

Posted in Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel | Tagged Almog Shilony, Australia, Canada, Chaya Zissel Braun, Dalia Lamkus, england, Islamic State, Karen Yemima Mosquera, Palestinian Nazis, Sweden | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 11, 2014

Veteran’s Day, 2014: My Favorite Veteran, Rabbi Abraham Avrech z’l

My father, Rabbi Abraham Avrech. An Army Chaplain in the 42nd Rainbow Division, my father served this great nation through World War II, The Korean War and Vietnam. Retired as a full Colonel, my father often spoke of his Chaplaincy as the most important and fulfilling of his long and distinguished Rabbinic career.

My father, Rabbi Chaplain Abraham Avrech passed away on March 15, 2014. This is the first Veteran’s Day without my father’s physical presence in this world.

He is gone, but like all veteran’s certainly not forgotten.

Take a moment to ponder the enormous sacrifices made by our nation’s heroes and their families.

Millions and millions of people all over the world are forever in their debt.

Keep in mind that the U.S.military has freed more people on this earth from tyranny and evil than any other force. Certainly, American servicemen have done more for the cause of freedom and democracy than any so-called peace movement.

Whenever I see the brain-dead bumper sticker, “War is not the Answer,” I cringe, for war is frequently the only answer, the only moral response to evil.

Because if the forces of good do not defeat evil, evil prevails.

Posted in Abraham Avrech, America, Judaism, U.S. Army, Veterans Day | Tagged 42nd, 42nd Rainbow Division, Baseball, Brooklyn, Korea, Poland, Rabbi Chaplin Abraham Avrech, Vietnam, World War II, Yanuv, Yeshiva University | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 10, 2014

Obamacare Architect Brags “Stupidity of American Voter Critical in Passing Obamacare”

They lied to us for our own good.

I wish we could say that we are shocked by Jonathan Gruber’s confession/boast about the Democrat party’s contempt for the American people, and the totalitarian ideology that animates postmodern liberalism.

But this is exactly what we and other Conservatives have been warning about for years. To Gruber and the Democrat party, their utopian dreams justify, well, any and every lie and abuse of power.

It makes no difference to Gruber & Co. that most Americans will suffer horribly under Obamacare. Their radical delusions — cloaked as virtue — have replaced reality.

Posted in America, Obama Watch, Obamacare | Tagged 2014 Elections, Crooked Democrats, Joshua Gruber, JoshuaPundit, Rob Miller | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 6, 2014

Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1960s: Bye Bye Birdie

Ann-Margret performs the title song, Bye Bye Birdie.

We continue our survey of the Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1960s.

For the Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1950s, click here.

For the Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1940s, click here.

For the Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1930s click here.

For the Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1920s click here.

8. Bye Bye Birdie, 1963

From the opening shot, as Ann-Margret (b. Ann-Margret Olsson) bops, bounces, and belts out the title song — on a treadmill, no less — this film belongs to the twenty-one-year-old Swedish-born beauty.

Bye Bye Birdie (originally a stage hit) is based on the national hysteria that hit when Elvis Presley was drafted into the army in 1957. But the film is also a commentary on the emerging youth culture that found its voice in rock and roll, whose deliciously wicked bad boys displaced the clean-cut romantic crooners who had dominated radio and film since the 1920s.

Posted in Ann-Margret, Bye Bye Birdie, Great Movies, Greatest Movies of the 1960s, Hollywood, Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1960s | Tagged Ann-Margret, Bobby Rydell, Bye Bye Birdie, Dick Van Dyke, Elvis Presley, George Sidney, Janet Leigh, JFK, Maureen Stapleton, Oona White, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Vietnam, Youth Culture | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 5, 2014

2014 Elections — The Thrill is Gone Obama

In a speech at Northwestern University last month, Barack Obama said: “I am not on the ballot this fall…. But make no mistake: These policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.”

Obama’s bottomless vanity, his clinical narcissism, compelled him to tell the truth.

Of course, when the polls saw the coming bloodbath the Democrats would suffer in the 2014 midterm elections, Obama quickly and characteristically played the victim, shifting the blame to an electoral map that was stacked against him.

Posted in Obama Watch, Obamacare, Politics | Tagged 2014 Elections, BB King, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, IRS Scandal, Race Hustling, The Thrill is Gone | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 4, 2014

Mayor of Houston Withdraws Unconstitutional Subpoenas

It’s not often we report good news.

Last week, Seraphic Secret reported on the totalitarian mayor of Houston’s immoral and blatantly unconstitutional attack on the First Amendment.

Naturally, radical leftists scurried to her defense with the fiction that this was really about illegal signatures on a petition. But when you read the NRO article below, you understand that Mayor Parker’s subpoenas were a Soviet style move to undermine freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and due process.

Postmodern Democrats believe fervently in freedom of religion, but only when it comes to Islam.

These same red-hot defenders of the Constitution speak up for freedom of speech, but only when a Republican is in the White House and dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

When Democrats are in power, dissent and criticism magically morph into hate speech.

My friend Bookworm Room, one of the greatest bloggers in the known universe, and a superb lawyer, brought the following article to my attention.

Posted in Constitution, Gay Marriage | Tagged Annise Parker, First Amendment, HomoFascism, Mayor of Houston | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 3, 2014

Hamas Chief’s Sister Being Treated for Cancer in Israel by the Sons of Apes and Pigs

Marzouk (R) embraces a Hamas terrorist.

The Vice Chairman of the Hamas politburo is Moussa Abu Marzouk.

He is an Islamist terrorist who advocates the destruction of Israel and the murder of every Jew on the face of the earth. The Hamas charter, which Mazouk swears by, defines Jews (quoting the Koran) as “sons of apes and pigs.”

He is, by definition, a theocratic fascist, an Islamist supremacist, a racist Jew-hater, and a war criminal.

Mazourka’s sister has cancer.

Where is she being treated?

In Israel.

And she is being treated, no doubt, for free.

Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel | Tagged Ismail Haniyeh, Israeli Medicine, Moussa Abu Marzouk | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 31, 2014

Hollywood — Play Ball!

Buster Keaton was a fanatic baseball player. When he had his own production company, he frequently hired staff based on their talent as basebalk players.

Buster Keaton was a fanatic baseball player. When he had his own production company, he frequently hired staff based on their batting and fielding abilities.

Ever since Hollywood invented itself as a universal dream factory, movies about baseball were viewed as the perfect landscape in which to explore themes of loyalty, ambition, competition, and of course, love.

More than any other sports genre, baseball movies have dominated the silver screen.

And of course, Hollywood publicity departments frequently used baseball to promote and sell their stars.

Posted in Buster Keaton, Carole Lombard, Colleen Moore, Gary Cooper, Hollywood, Hollywood Baseball, Hollywood Play Ball, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Rita Hayworth | Tagged A League of Their Own, Actor's Studio, Buster Keaton, Carole Lombard, Colleen Moore, Hollywood and Baseball, John Wayne, Madonna, Marlon Brando, Painted People, Pride of the Yankees, Rita Hayworth, Tom Hanks | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 30, 2014

Obama Was Warned About ISIS — Did Nothing — Then Lied

Former ambassador to Iraq, James Jeffrey, explains how the genocidal Islamic State emerged with nary a whimper of protest from the Obama administration.

Posted in ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Obama Watch | Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, James Jeffrey | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 29, 2014

Obama Libels Israel, Sucks Up to Genocidal-Yearning Iranians

So, all you rumor-mongering, fever-headed Jewish conspiracists: Support McCain, if you want, and there are credible reasons for doing so, but stop smearing Obama in the face of overwhelming evidence that the man is a great friend of Jews and of Israel. After a point, it becomes obvious that what you fear is not Israel’s destruction, but the presence of an African-American in the White House. And that’s disgusting.

— Jeffrey Goldberg, 2008

Jeffrey Goldberg is a faux journalist whose real occupation is kapo for Barack Obama.

As Obama ratchets up his attack on PM Netanyahu and Israel, Goldberg publishes stories that are barely-disguised press releases for the Obama regime.

Goldberg’s latest blast of propaganda quotes an unnamed Obama official as calling Bibi “chickens—t.” Make no mistake about it: The unnamed official is Obama himself.

Posted in Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, Obama Watch | Tagged Al Sharpton, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bill Ayers, Edward Said., Frank Marshall Davis, Jeffrey Goldberg, Jeremiah Wright, Jew-hatred, Kapo, Khalid al-Mansour, Rashid al-Khalidi, Saul Alinsky | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 28, 2014

Obama Cares… He Really Cares About Molotov Throwing Terrorists

Posted in Democrats, Islam, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred | Tagged Chaya Zisel Braun, Cognitive Dissonance, Doublethink, Jen Psaki, Jeremiah Wright, Kotel, PalNazis, Western Wall | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 27, 2014

When HomoFascists Meet IslamoNazis

Can this really be happening in America? The mayor of Houston has issued a subpoena for the sermons of five church pastors — sermons that may focus on homosexuality. According to Houston’s HomoNazi mayor, Annise Parker, these sermons are at odds with equal-rights ordinances.

Make no mistake about it: A red line has been crossed. According to the ideology of the Democrat party, religious faith is the greatest enemy facing the modern state.

But just as two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time, homosexual supremacy and religious freedom cannot coexist.

Posted in Gay Marriage, Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis | Tagged Annise Parker, HomoFascism, IslamoNazis | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 24, 2014

Hollywood in Stitches, Part I

“Hurry up and wait!”

Anyone who has worked on a major Hollywood production is familiar with this ironic cry.

There is a tremendous amount of down time on a Hollywood film. It takes hours to set up lights, rig camera and sound, and make sure the sets and props are in place. Thus, actors spend a huge amount of time waiting, waiting, waiting for the the cameras to roll.

In the past, especially in the 1930s, scores of Hollywood actresses took up knitting to help pass the countless hours between takes.

Several years ago, at a swanky Hollywood party, I met the wealthy widow of a prominent producer who had been active during Hollywood’s Golden Age. After dispensing with a few glasses of champagne the elderly lady talked about, well, the good ol’ days. When I expressed my admiration for classic Hollywood movies she told me that at the tender age of 15, she was one of Busby Berkeley’s chorus girls.

Posted in Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood in Stitches, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography | Tagged Bette Davis, Busby Berkeley, Hollywood Stars Knitting, Ingrid Bergman, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Mary Pickford, Notorious, Now Voyager, Sally Sage, Sylvia Sidney | 17 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 22, 2014

The Redefinition of Marriage is Not About Marriage

As the move to redefine marriage in the United States gains steam through the agency of unelected activist courts, it should be clear that the true intent of this radical movement is to wage war against religion and, of course, against the First Amendment.

It is vital to remember that the Left uses stealth and lies to achieve its ends.

Those who advocate the murder of infants in the womb camouflage their support of industrial-scale murder with the label “women’s health.” But since half the infants aborted are female, the very notion of terminating pregnancies for the sake of women’s health becomes a study in Orwellian language and logic.

The same goes for the redefinition of marriage.

Posted in Abortion, Gay Marriage | Tagged Gay Marriage, Houston, Liberal Tyranny, polygamy, sharia, Stalinism | 28 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 21, 2014

Pat Condell: Boo Hoo Palestine

Another great video from Pat Condell. This one about the Western fetish for the PalNazis.

Posted in Gaza, Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, Pat Condell, Politics | Tagged Arab Jealousy of Jews, Arab Muslim Jew-Hatred, Arab Racism, Arab Terrorism, Arabs, Honor-Shame Culture, Killing Jews for Allah, PalNazis, Pat Condell, Two State Solution | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 20, 2014

Obama’s Treachery and the Jewish State

Obamaism is a multifaceted attack on traditional Americanism.

Obamaism springs from Marxist-Lenninism, but is softened, for messaging purposes, by the utopian, feel-good language of social justice.

It is no accident that Obama was a deeply devoted follower of Jeremiah Wright, whose theology is a radical leftist’s wet dream of what religion should be. Naturally, Wright is a foaming at the mouth Jew and America hater.

Thus, it was entirely predictable that Obama would emerge as profoundly anti-Israeli, treating the Jewish state as a colonial Western outpost, and as the central problem in the Middle East, a toxic region made so by decades of tyranny, kleptocracy, socialism, Islamism, and the bloody forever-war between Shia and Sunni.

We now know that Obama withheld crucial military supplies Israel requested during Operation Protective Edge.

Posted in Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Obama Watch, Operation Protective Edge | Tagged Henry Kissinger, Jeremiah Wright, Obamaism, Operation Nickel Grass, Richard Nixon, Social Justice, Strategic Defense Procurement, U.S.-Israeli Defense Relations | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 19, 2014

The Israel Apartheid Blood Libel

Is Israel an apartheid state, as its enemies claim? Who better to answer that charge than a Black South African who lived through apartheid? Kenneth Meshoe, a member of the South African parliament, fits that bill. He examines the evidence against Israel and draws a compelling conclusion.

Posted in Blood Libel, Israel | Tagged Apartheid, South Africa | 2 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 15, 2014

Take #3: The Meaning of Leaning in Hollywood

Jean Harlow propped up on a leaning board between scenes for “Dinner at Eight” (’33). The form fitting silk gown designed by Adrian was so tight that Harlow could not sit. In fact, Harlow was sewn into the gown — sans underwear.

Leaning boards ( also called Slant boards) were invented for Hollywood players to relax between takes. Hollywood costumes were frequently cut on-the-bias, and tailored so snugly that the actor could not sit without bursting a ladder of seams. In fact, most of the time, there were no zippers or buttons on the costumes. Actors were stitched into their garments.

When you see Jean Harlow in Dinner at Eight, and marvel at the impeccable fit of the famous white silk gown, be aware that Harlow’s mobility was severely limited. In fact, just breathing was something of a chore.

Remember, classic Hollywood movies were designed to project images of glamour. For the screen, costumes had to be photogenic. Comfort and practicality were of little concern.

These days, leaning boards are still in use, but they are the exception rather than the rule, for a variety of reasons. Modern fabrics are more forgiving. It is also quite rare for a costume to be designed, cut and sewn, for one actress. Most costumes are off the rack, and modified. Besides, in today’s Hollywood, stars who receive multiple millions for one film are loathe to suffer the indignities of such a tight fit.

Posted in Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Leaning Boards | Tagged Brian Aherne, Dinner at Eight, Frank Morgan, Fred Keating, Gaslight, Gene Kelly, George Cukor, Ginger Rogers, I Live My Life, Ingrid Bergman, Jean Hagen, Joseph Cotten, Margot Grahame, Merle Oberon, Night in Paradise, Singin in the Rain, Slant Boards, The Three Musketeers, Top Hat, W.S. Van Dyke | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 13, 2014

Obama’s Community Theater

State Dept. propagandist Jen Psaki. The hashtag reassures the world that the United States is chock full of empathy. At the same time, the smile, necklace, and the thumbs up, signal that Obama’s America is totally chill.

From the very beginning of Seraphic Secret’s work in the blogosphere, we have maintained that Hollywood movies are the most powerful weapon of propaganda the world has ever known.

America wins wars that Hollywood supports.

And of course, America loses wars that Hollywood opposes.

Posted in Hollywood, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Obama Watch, Progressive Democrats, Propaganda War | Tagged Caliphate Islam, Community of Nations, Community Theater, Jen Psaki, Marie Harf, State Department | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 8, 2014

Take #2: The Meaning of Leaning in Hollywood

Jean Harlow propped up on a leaning board between scenes for Dinner at Eight ('33). The Adrian designed gown was so tight that Harlow could not sit, nor wear any undergarments.

Jean Harlow propped up on a leaning board between scenes for “Dinner at Eight” (’33). The Adrian designed gown was so tight that Harlow could not sit. In fact, Harlow was sewn into the gown — sans underwear.

Leaning boards ( also called Slant boards) were invented for Hollywood players to relax between takes. Frequently, the costumes were cut on the bias, and tailored so snugly that the actor could not sit without bursting a ladder of seams. In fact, most of the time, there were no zippers or buttons on the costumes. Actors were stitched into their garments.

Remember, classic Hollywood movies were designed to project images of glamour. For the screen, costumes had to be photogenic. Comfort and practicality were of little concern.

These days, leaning boards are still in use, but they are the exception rather than the rule.

Posted in Glamour, Hollywood, Jean Harlow, Leaning Boards | Tagged Alice Faye, Dinner at Eight, I Dood It, Jane Halsey, Katherine Hepburn, Kim Novak, Lena Horne, On the Avenue, Roy Del Ruth, Succot, Susan Hayward, The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, The Great Ziegfeld, The Lost Moment, Walter Plunkett | 10 Responses

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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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Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: "Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 97MB)

Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: "The War Against Judaism on the University Campus." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 16MB)

Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: "The Mainstream Media's Betrayal of Israel." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 15MB)

Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: "What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 18MB)

Seventh: June 13, 2010
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?" Blog Post | Audio (mp3 64MB)

Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: "What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 70MB)
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