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Pop quiz: Why isn’t the Justice Department investigating the Clinton money laundering operation? Any other so-called charity would be under multiple federal and state indictments. Hillary Clinton had her own private server when she was Secretary of State. This is indefensible. She destroyed 30,000 emails? Does anyone believe that all these emails were about yoga […]

Posted in Anna May Wong, Art, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaism, Marilyn Monroe | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Ancient Judaica, Anish Kapoor, Anne Francis, Audrey Hepburn, Baseball, Beechnut Gum, Cary Grant, Craig Kneidler, Craig Kreindler, Gene Tierney, Lauren Bacall, Livia Yarden, Lou Gherig, Ma'ayan Ariel, Matisse, Modigliani, Myrna Loy, Sidney Lumet | 11 Responses

Friday Photos: Everything But the Kitchen Sink

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 8, 2015

Baltimore. Garland, Texas. Iran. Yemen. ObamaCare. Iraq. Syria. Shia. Sunni. Clinton Cash. IslamoNazis. IRS. Benghazi. Lois Lerner. Thug. Federal Deficit. Islamic State. Hillary. Server. Delete 30,000 emails. War on police. Minimum wage. Mohammed cartoons. Racist. Transgender. Income inequality. BDS. Beheadings. Chemical weapons. Iranian nukes… How about some pictures to help set aside—at least for a […]

Posted in Anna May Wong, Art, Bette Davis, Brigitte Bardot, Clara Bow, Eve Arden, Friday Fotos, Hollywood Cars, Marlene Dietrich, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Vertigo | Also tagged Ballet, Bette Davis, Clara Bow, Clyfford Still, Dancing Lady, Degas, Eve Arden, Jane Russell, John Singer Sargent, Kim Novak, Livia Yarden, Mark Rothko, Myrna Loy, Ted Allan, Vertigo, Whistler | 8 Responses

Friday Photos: Just Photos

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: April 24, 2015

No commentary today. No rants about politics and culture. I am drained. Here are some random pictures that will, hopefully, enliven a darkling plain.

Posted in Art, Audrey Hepburn, Betty Grable, Brigitte Bardot, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Mirror, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marilyn Monroe | Also tagged Andre de Dienes, Anish Kapoor, Augustus John, Diego Rivera, IDF, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Livia Yarden, Louise Brooks, Maureen O'Hara, Micha Bar-Am, Michelangelo, Painting, Paulette Goddard, Philippe Halsman, Seven Samurai, Tallulah Bankhead, The Quiet Man, Toshiro Mifune | 12 Responses

Friday Photos: Because the World Really is Burning

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 19, 2014

Is it our imagination or is the global order falling into systemic disorder? North Korea, a giant gulag, has managed to intimidate the entire Hollywood system. Meanwhile, the Obama regime, allegedly sworn to defend and protect America from all threats foreign and domestic, seems far more interested in cozying up to the ruthless tyrants of […]

Posted in Art, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Chanukah, Clark Gable, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Leaning Boards, Marilyn Monroe, Movies | Also tagged American citizenship, Charlie Chaplin, Genia Keiler, Grace Kelly, JM Turner, Kotel, Leaning Boards, Ma'ayan Ariel, My Fair Lady, Red Dust, Rex Harrison, The Great Dictator, Vermeer | 13 Responses

Friday Photos: Just Because the World is Still Burning…

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 12, 2014

It’s been another terrible, horrible very bad week with the release of a Democrat, ahem, study, that seeks to persecute President George W. Bush and the CIA for their efforts to protect America against genocidal IslamoNazis. The Democrat Senate report is a lynching, just as the Ferguson riots are lynch mobs, and just as Rolling […]

Posted in Audrey Hepburn, Clark Gable, Fashion, Friday Footwear, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Jews of Samarkand, Judaism, Lielle Meital, Maayan Ariel, Marilyn Monroe, Obama Watch, Photography, Photography, Family, Girls Love Footwear | Also tagged art, Irving Penn, Jewish Children in Samarkand, John F. Peto, Karen, Lielle Meital, Ma'ayan Ariel, Monk Strap Shoes, North Korea Hacks Sony, Painting, Red Dust, Sony Studios, Utagawa Hiroshige, Wayne F. Miller | 8 Responses

Friday Photos: Just Because the World is Burning…

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 5, 2014

All across the country protests, riots, and race-baiters doing what they do in order to disrupt civil society. We don’t know about you, but here at Seraphic Secret we feel the need for some relief from the endless cycle of horrible, terrible, very bad news. We yearn for beauty, for images that, in one way […]

Posted in Anna May Wong, Art, Audrey Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Gloria Grahame, Hollywood Mirror, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography | Also tagged A Woman's Secret, Audrey Hepburn, Desert Nights, Drexel U, John Gilbert, John Singer Sargent, Lielle Meital, Ma'ayan Ariel, Mary Nolan, Miss Elsie Palmer | 11 Responses

Friday Photos: Still Scattered

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: November 28, 2014

We hope all our readers had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving. Keeping to last week’s theme of eschewing a theme, Seraphic Secret is, once again, indulging in a collection of random photos that we like for various reasons. We hope you do too.

Posted in Anna May Wong, Art, Brigitte Bardot, Fashion, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, Seven Samurai | Also tagged Brigitte Bardot, Gun Crazy, Jan Vermeer, Self Portraits, Self-Portrait, Shabbat, Shachareet, Tefillin | 4 Responses

Friday Photos: Random

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 4, 2013

Totally random selection of photos today. Enjoy!

Posted in Friday Footwear, Friday Fotos, How I Married Karen | Also tagged Footwear, Jewish Tartan, Ma'ayan Ariel, Michael Kors Ionna Pump, Phantom of the Opera | 3 Responses

How I Married Karen

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by Robert J. Avrech

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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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Annual Ariel Avrech
Memorial Lectures
Young Israel of Century City
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Fifteenth: June 10, 2018
Jackie Danicki: “Confessions of a Convert: A Humbling, Joyful Journey to Judaism.”

Blog Post | Audio: (94 MB)

Fourteenth: June 11, 2017
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

Blog Post | Audio: (100 MB)

Thirteenth: May 22, 2016Ben Shapiro: “How You Can Save Israel”

Blog Post | Audio: (70 MB)

Twelfth: June 7, 2015
Larry Elder: “The New Black Anti-Semitism”

Blog Post | Audio: (100 MB)

Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”

Blog Post | Audio: (97MB)

Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”

Blog Post | Audio: (16MB)

Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”

Blog Post | Audio: (15MB)

Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”

Blog Post | Audio: (18MB)

Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”

Blog Post | Audio: (80MB)

Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: “Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?”

Blog Post | Audio: (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: (70MB)
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