From where do we draw wisdom? First and foremost, Seraphic Secret relies on the Torah—written and oral—on the lessons of 3,000 years of Jewish history, and on the common sense advice of my wife Karen. And then there are the movies, a moral landscape of immeasurable power where searing images and razor-sharp dialogue deliver lessons [...]
- 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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2011
video wmv [499MB]:
audio-only mp3 [18MB]: Eighth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture
2010
video wmv [540MB]:
audio-only mp3 [80MB]: Seventh Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture
2009
video wmv [332MB]:
audio-only mp3 [64MB]: Sixth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture
2008
video wmv [359MB]:
audio-only mp3 [70MB]: Fifth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture
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