Seraphic Secret

By Robert J. Avrech | July 9, 2013

Obama: The Government Is Us…

Obama: “We can’t just take comfort in being cynical. We all have a stake in government success, because the government is us, and we’re doing things right.”

Of course, this is consistent with Obama’s infamous “You didn’t build that” lecture.

Posted in Big Government, Obama Watch | Tagged Big Government, Liberation Trilogy, Marxism, Nazi Germany, Rick Atkinson, Socialism | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 8, 2013

Little Girls on PA TV: Jews are Barbaric Monkeys, Wretched Pigs…

Egypt is burning.

As of last Sunday approximately 90 women have been raped in Tahrir Square by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, and their opponents. Don’t look for good guys in this bottle of scorpions. Over fifty people have been murdered. Civil war is on the horizon.

Syria burns. Their civil war has been going on for almost three years. Over 100,000 people have been killed. Mass rape is used by both sides as a weapon of terror. Over a million Syrians have been forced from their homes.

But official Palestinian TV—funded by U.S. and European tax dollars—has but one burning issue: Jew-hatred.

Posted in Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jew-haters, Palestinian Media Watch | Tagged Palestinian Child Abuse, Palestinian Nationalism, Palestinian Television | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 7, 2013

Muslim Brotherhood Says Interim President Is A Jew, Secretly Backed By Israel…

A few days ago, when the mobs were gathering in Tahrir Square and the talking heads were all agog about another Arab Spring, I turned to Karen and said, “How long before these—ahem—freedom fighters, start raping women?”

Karen shrugged, rolled her eyes.

“How long before the Egyptians blame everything on the evil Jews?” I persisted.

Karen examined a split end.

Posted in Egypt, Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Jew-haters, Muslim Brotherhood, Obama Watch | Tagged Arab Spring, Failed Arab States, Islamic Jew Hatred, Karen Singer Avrech, Tahrir Square | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 4, 2013

July 4th Classic Hollywood Style

Ava Gardner draws a line in the sand for July 4th.

Ava Gardner (1922-1990) draws lines in the sand on July 4th, 1943, and flashes the victory sign. Nothing like patriotism and a bit of cheesecake to raise morale.

A long time ago, in a universe far, far away, in a place called Hollywood, the engines of entertainment genius that were the movie studios, and the actors who were under contract to them, celebrated their love of America, and enthusiastically indulged in overt displays of patriotism.

L.B. Mayer (b. Lazar Meir) of MGM, a pioneer of the motion-picture industry, and the man who invented the star system, adopted July 4th as his birthday. Scores of Hollywood historians get all snarky about Mayer’s birthday, claiming that he conveniently changed his birthday in order to cash in on a public identification with America.

What these historians fail to recognize is that Mayer probably did not know the date of his birth.

Posted in Hollywood, July 4th | Tagged Ava Gardner, Declaration Day, Independence Day, Jewish Hollywood, Joan Crawford, kaddish, L.B. Mayer, Leila Hyams, Madge Evans, Marilyn Monroe, Pale of Settlement, Patriotism, Phil Berg, Rabbi Shmuel Avrech, Sidney Kingsley, Timothy Oulton American Bed, yahrtzeit | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 3, 2013

The Rape, Torture, Murder of Christopher Newsom and Chanon Christian, and the Zimmerman Trial

Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.

The George Zimmerman trial is a TV ratings bonanza.

We are told that this is an important trial because…

Well, because the liberal ruling class and the race hustlers who work in concert to Balkanize this nation—race, gender, religion, whatever works—tell us that this is a narrative about race relations in America. George Zimmerman is being cast as a post-modern Bull Connor. Forget that Zimmerman is dark-skinned and Hispanic. Ignore the inconvenient fact that Zimmerman mentored young black kids. Forget that it’s Trayvon Martin who was the racist, referring to Zimmerman as a “creepy-ass cracker.”

Barack Hussein Obama most helpfully told America that Trayvon Martin could have been his son.

Translation: Trayvon Martin was black. Therefore, Obama (half black, raised by his white grandparents) identifies with him.

With all due respect to President Obama, this statement is fundamentally racist. It is an ideology that places skin color—not humanity, truth, or justice—as the center of a value system.

The Newsom-Christian story—an atrocity worthy of Nazis, or comparable to the cruel depredations of Japanese imperial troops—was ignored by the mainstream press. And the reason the liberal media deliberately buried this story is because the human monsters who committed this barbarous act were black, and the victims were white.

The professional race-baiters—Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Bobby Rush, Barack Obama, the entire lynch party at MSNBC—are still out there pushing their vile and false narrative.

Seraphic Secret published this story on April 3, 2012. And nothing has changed.

Posted in Obama Watch, Race Relations | Tagged Al Sharpton, Barack Hussein Obama, Chanon Christian, Christopher Newsom, Jesse Jackson, MSNBC, Race Baiters | 33 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 2, 2013

ObamaCare: Democrats Hiding the True Costs, and the Secret LAUSD Lesson Plan

Barack Hussein Obama promised to “fundamentally transform America.”

Imagine turning to your future wife or husband, right before the wedding ceremony, and saying: “After we’re married, I’m going to fundamentally transform you.”

“But why, honey?”

“Because I love you.”

Posted in Obama Watch, Obamacare | Tagged Democrat Fascism, LAUSD, socialized medicine, Totalitarin Regimes | 15 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 1, 2013

The Extortion, Persecution, and Destruction of Paula Deen

Paula Deen, currently being lynched by the liberal media.

Butter.

That’s what comes to mind when Seraphic Secret thinks of Paula Deen.

She cooks with lots and lots of butter. And, not surprisingly, her politically incorrect defiance of liberal health Nazis have made her brand wildly popular.

So: when we heard that Paula Deen was in hot water because of a single word—

Posted in Paula Deen | Tagged Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Jew-Haters, Liberal Rascists, Race Baiters, Race Relations, Tawana Brawley | 17 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 27, 2013

Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1960s: Psycho

Norman Bates peeping at Marion Crane, Psycho, 1960.

Manipulating audience point of view. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) spying on Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), Psycho, 1960.

We begin our survey 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.

1. Psycho, 1960

At first glance Psycho looks like a cheap exploitation film. Hitchcock shot it with a television crew, not his standard, and very costly, feature crew. He filmed in black and white, and the $800,000, budget was low even by the standards of 1960. The Bates Motel and gothic style mansion were built on the back lot at Universal.

Hitch had just finished the hugely entertaining and successful North by Northwest, a glittering, all-star production. Psycho, on the other hand, looks like a sleazy production with B-list actors. Even the ad campaign—“Do not give away the ending”—feels like something cooked up by William Castle or some other schlockmeister.

But of course, Psycho has become the essential Hitchcock movie. It’s the film whose impact has been felt in almost every subsequent mainstream Hollywood movie.

Posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Hollywood, Movies, Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1960s | Tagged Anthony Perkins, Bernard Herrmann, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Marion Crane, Norman Bates, Sam Loomis | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 26, 2013

Supreme Court Strikes Down DOMA, Approves Sharia

Seraphic Secret did not go to law school.

But since I make a living as a Hollywood screenwriter, I can claim to have a pretty good imagination.

So, here’s my take on the Supreme Court ruling striking down DOMA, thus making homosexual marriage the law of the land.

Posted in DOMA, Sharia | Tagged dog lovers, incest, menage et trois, sharia | 34 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 25, 2013

Israel Makes a Free-Market Move

Ruth gleans wheat in the fields of Boaz, her kinsman and future husband. In the Torah, charity is a mitzvah incumbent upon the individual. In ancient Israel, the third-year tithe – reserved for Levites, sojourners, widows and orphans, was administered by the Cohanim, not civil or military authorities. The Torah’s gleaning laws required the poor to gather leftover crops themselves (Deut. 24:19), which allowed them to maintain their dignity and work ethic. The Torah understood that the purpose of charity was not to create a permanent underclass. It never gives the state the authority to redistribute wealth or dole out charity since the state does not create wealth. The state only seizes the wealth of others. The socialist founders of the modern state of Israel were great Zionists, but also delusional utopians who abandoned the wisdom of the Torah in favor of (Jew-hating) Marxists. Go figure.

Over the years, Seraphic Secret has made many friends through cyberspace.

One of the earliest readers and commenters at this blog was Jake Novak, an intellectually curious and honest liberal. Convinced over time by our Conservative arguments, he has evolved into a passionate and articulate spokesman for Conservative values.

Now an executive producer of the excellent Kudlow Report on CNBC, Jake has made it his business to emphasize the organic link between the free market and man’s liberty, and the tyranny that is the regulatory state.

Jake is also a deeply committed and scholarly Jew—his father is a distinguished rabbi—and a fierce defender of Zion. Though he works behind the scenes at CNBC, his intellectual prowess is a major driver of CNBC’s business reportage.

Jake has kindly given us permission to repost his latest article about the huge economic strides being made in Israel.

Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu, Free Market, Haredim, Israel, Likud, Torah | Tagged Charity, Dov Lipman, Jacob Frankel, Jake Novak, Marx, Ruth, Socialism, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid | 26 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 24, 2013

Climate Change = People Control

Barack Hussein Obama is set to deliver a, sigh, major speech (does this man ever deliver minor speeches?) about so-called climate change.

Whatever happened to Global Warming?

And gee, back in the ice age of 1977, Time published a cover story about global cooling and the impending, y’know, Ice Age.

Posted in Climate Change, Obama Watch, Obamacare, Oil | Tagged Gloobal Cooling, The Coming Ice Age | 19 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 23, 2013

Gun Control Black Control

Every American should support the right to bear arms.

It was free American blacks with guns—given to them by NRA Republicans—who were able to defend themselves against the Dixie Democrats and the KKK.

H/T Myrna & Joe Strapp

Posted in Gun Control, Second Amendment | Tagged Blacks and Guns, Democrat Racists, IKEA, Jews and Guns, NRA | 23 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 21, 2013

Friday Photos: Art of the Manhattan Subway and Teaneck, N.J.

Karen and I spent a few days on the east coast. We had a wonderful day in Manhattan, riding the always interesting subways, walking around, visiting with friends and relatives. The eye was an art installation in a subway station in lower Manhattan.

Karen and I visited the east coast last week. We spent a wonderful day in Manhattan, riding the always interesting subways, walking around, visiting with friends and relatives. “Oculus” or “Eye” (1998) is an art installation of over 300 stone mosaic eyes in the Chambers Street/World Trade Center subway station, created by Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel.

Posted in Friday Fotos, Photography, Signs | Tagged Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel, Lielle Meital, Ma'ayan Ariel, Manhattan, New Jersey, Oculus or Eye, Subway Art, Teaneck, Urban photography | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 19, 2013

How I Married Karen Thirty-Six Years Ago Today

My bride, Karen, June 19, 1977

Today is our 36th wedding anniversary.

But as readers of Seraphic Secret know, I have been helplessly, hopelessly in love with Karen ever since the fourth grade, when I first saw her on the playground of our elementary school, Yeshiva of Flatbush.

Without Karen, I never would have accomplished very much in life. It was her faith in my ambition, my talent and tenacity, that gave me the strength to become a successful Hollywood screenwriter-producer. And of course, it has always been Karen’s common sense that has turned me from an irresponsible young dreamer into a man who is willing to shoulder even the heaviest of burdens.

Yesterday, we took a walk together. At one point, I turned and glanced at Karen’s lovely profile. Time seemed to turn liquid as present and past merged. For one hallucinatory instant, I saw Karen as the ravishing, nine year-old, onyx-eyed beauty who captured my vulnerable heart.

I said to myself: “Karen loves me. Karen married me. We have built a wonderful life together. My world is complete.”

Here’s an excerpt from my eBook, How I Married Karen.

Posted in Hollywood, How I Married Karen, Wedding Anniversary | Tagged Jewish Romance, Karen Singer Avrech, Robert J. Avrech, Souls For Sale, Yeshiva of Flatbush | 45 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 18, 2013

IRS Gives Hugs to Terror-Tied, Democrat-backed CAIR, While Targeting Conservative Patriots and Pro-Israel Groups

Seraphic Secret is no longer shocked by anything that crawls from the slime of the Obama White House.

What is shocking is that the American people tolerate Obama’s radical agenda—Cloward-Piven strategy mixed with Alinsky tactics—that is trampling on our rights, making a mockery of the Constitution, and turning America into a European style welfare state where the citizens are liberated from, y’know, liberty.

Barack Hussein Obama spent over 20 years as a faithful member of a Jew-hating, anti-American church. Jeremiah Wright, the frothing race hustler who led this church, was Obama’s spiritual mentor. Wright performed the Obama wedding, and christened the Obama children. It was in the living room of American terrorists (and trust fund babies) Bill Ayres and Bernardine Dorn that Obama kicked off his bottom-feeding political career. And at each step in his rise to power, Barack Hussein Obama has pandered to Islamists, like the outspoken Jew-hater Khaled Rashidi.

Thus, it’s only logical to discover that Obama’s IRS, has been giving preferential treatment to CAIR, a front for the Muslim Brotherhood, while at the same time turning pro-Israel groups over to an IRS anti-terrorism unit.

Posted in IRS, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Muslim Brotherhood, Obama Watch | Tagged Alinsky Tactics, Bernardine Dorn, Bill Ayres, CAIR, Cloward-Piven Strategy, IRS Scandal, Jeremiah Wright, Khaled Rashidi, Obama and Islamists | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 17, 2013

Another Day Another IslamoNazi Sermon At Sunni Islam’s Al-Azhar University: Stones And Trees Will Say, “Oh Muslim, There Is A Jew Behind Me, Come And Kill Him”…

Keep in mind that this Jew-hating sermon was delivered at the same, ahem, “university” where Barack Hussein Obama delivered his 2009 speech to the Muslim world.

The Nazis tried to keep their genocide of the Jewish people a secret because they believed the world was “too civilized” to accept the Final Solution. Modern Muslims are not constrained by such illusions. They know, and they wallow in the essential barbarism of their world—and large segments of Europe—where Jew-hatred is as natural and as necessary as oxygen. The Islamic world is proud of their bigotry, and they tell us, in no uncertain terms, that Jew-hatred, and the eventual genocide of the Jewish people, is a guiding foundational principle of Islam.

Liberals—slaves to self-righteous fantasies—will lecture us about all the good and moderate Muslims who do not accept such genocidal racism. To which Seraphic Secret replies: These Muslims are as irrelevant as were the “good Germans” to the Holocaust.

Posted in Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Jew-haters | Tagged Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Genocide, MEMRI, Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Mahdi | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 13, 2013

How Hollywood Bobbed America’s Hair

In 1926, Paramount Pictures published this publicity photo of their leading stars, all sporting the stylish Bob.

In 1926, Paramount published this publicity photo of their leading stars, all sporting the stylish Bob.

Hollywood is the greatest propaganda machine the world has ever known.

Audiences used to sit in a velvety dark theater, drinking in the silver images projected on the screen. Actors were larger than life, and the manner in which they were styled — wardrobe, makeup, and hair — influenced mass audiences the world over.

In the roaring 20s, women broke free of corsets and countless layers of petticoats to dance the Charleston and experience a new social freedom. The long, corkscrew tresses made popular by Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish were ritually chopped off and replaced by the bob, a hairstyle that was easy to manage and projected a sleek, Deco image.

Take a look at a few of the many bob styles popular in the Flapper Age. I think you’ll agree that most of them are timeless and appealing.

Posted in Gloria Swanson, Hollywood, Hollywood Hair | Tagged Betty Compton, Colleen Moore, Dorothy Seastrom, Flappers, Hair Styles, Louise Brooks, Mae Busch, The Bob | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 12, 2013

“Khaybar” IslamoNazi Miniseries on Egyptian TV

The Wall Street Journal reports on a Jew-hating miniseries to be aired during Ramadan on Egyptian TV. Hundreds of millions of Muslims will view this openly anti-Semitic propaganda.

In March, on his first visit to the Jewish state as president, Barack Obama exhorted Israelis to reach out to their Arab neighbors and see that “sometimes the greatest miracle is recognizing that the world can change.”

But consider Egypt, where in 2011 a popular revolt swept away Hosni Mubarak’s pharaonic dictatorship only to replace it with a Muslim Brotherhood-led theocracy. Through it all, one element of Egyptian culture has remained constant: its virulent anti-Semitism.

“Khaybar,” a serial drama set to air during the holy month of Ramadan (starting on July 8), is Egyptian TV’s latest piece of hate-melodrama. It depicts the Prophet Muhammad’s conquest, in A.D. 629, of a Jewish community on the Arabian Peninsula.

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Posted in Egypt, Islam, Islamic Terror, Jew-haters, Propaganda War | Tagged Human Rights Organizations, IslamoNazis, Khaybar, Muslim Entertainment | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 11, 2013

“Audit the IRS Rally” June 19, Noon, West Lawn, US Capitol, DC

June 19, 2013 will mark our 36th wedding anniversary.

Posted in IRS, Obama Watch, Tea Party | Tagged Audit the IRS | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 10, 2013

If It Happened in the Hague, It Can Happen Anywhere

David Horowitz delivers the Tenth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture at the Young Israel of Century City.

Yesterday, at the Tenth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture, David Horowitz outlined the war on Judiasm on today’s American campuses.

Anti-Zionism is the new Jew-hatred.

On campuses all across America, the Muslim Brotherhood have set up student front groups to push their genocidal agenda under the guise of multiculturalism, and, er, tolerance.

Perhaps most disturbing is the role of the campus (allegedly Jewish) Hillel organizations.

Instead of confronting and fighting the IslamoNazis who are colonizing American campuses, too many Hillel groups have been taken over by leftists who enthusiastically appease, if not enable, the Jew-hating Islamists.

Posted in Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture, Islam, Islamic Terror, Muslim Brotherhood | Tagged American Campuses, David Horowitz, Dutch Society, Guido Meotti, Hillel, Jewish Councils, sharia, The Hague, Theo Van Gogh | 17 Responses

How I Married Karen

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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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Annual Ariel Avrech
Memorial Lectures
Young Israel of Century City

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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