Tag Archives: Karen Singer Avrech

Jackie Danicki to Deliver 15th Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: April 25, 2018

You are all invited to the Fifteenth Annual Ariel Avrech ZT’L Memorial Lecture that will take place Sunday, June 10, 2018, at 10 AM, followed by brunch. Location: Young Israel of Century City 9317 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90035 For those unable to attend the lecture will be posted here at Seraphic Secret. Karen and I are delighted […]

Posted in Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture, Ariel Chaim Avrech, Jackie Danicki, Judaism, Remembering Ariel | Also tagged Ariel Avrech, Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture, Conversion to Judaism, Jackie Danicki, Judaism, Ner Yisroel | Leave a comment

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: February 9, 2018

Posted in Art, Clark Gable, Friday Footwear, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Anne Truitt, Clark Gable, Edward Hopper, Erwin Blumenfeld, Fay Bainter, Frank Capra, Ingrid Bergman, It Happened One Night, Joan Crawford, John Ford, Louis Anquetin, Rick McGinnis, Robert Henri, The Twelve Tribes | 11 Responses

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: June 30, 2017

Posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Art, Betty Grable, Cary Grant, Design, Dovima, Family, Friday Fotos, Ginger Rogers, Great Dialogue, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Blondell, Judaica, Judaism, Lielle Meital, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Rita Hayworth, Ronald Reagan, Screenwriting | Also tagged Albrecht Durer, Ben Hecht, Betty Grable, Bugatti, Celia, D Day Synagogue Services, Dovima, Erwin Blumenfeld, Ginger Rogers, Giuseppe Cesari, Groucho Marx, Hispano-Suiza, Jacob Riis, Joan Blondell, July 4th Hollywood, László Moholy-Nagy, Lee Miller, Lielle, Movie Posters from Poland, Myrna Loy, Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lifshitz, Rena, Renaissance, Rick McGinnis, Ronald Reagan, Sofonisba Anguissola, Theodore Chassériau, Truth About Youth | 15 Responses

Daniel Greenfield to Deliver 2017 Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 4, 2017

You are all invited to the Fourteenth Annual Ariel Avrech ZT’L Memorial Lecture that will take place Sunday, June 11, 2017, at 10 AM, followed by brunch.

Posted in Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture | Also tagged Daniel Greenfield, Ner Yisroel, Yeshiva Gedolah | 2 Responses

Jew Without a Gun: 25 Years Ago, the LA Riots

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: April 27, 2017

This coming Saturday marks the 25the anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots. Thus, I am republishing my three-part series about the riots of 1992 in which Karen and I and the children were trapped for several frightening hours. We were unarmed, helpless save for our wits. The police were conspicuously absent and the bad guys—frequently […]

Posted in America, Family, Hollywood, Jew Without A Gun, Los Angeles Riots, Second Amendment | Also tagged Democrat Facism, Fidel Lopez, Gun Control, Hollywood, LA Riots, LA Riots of '92, Reginald Denny, Robert J. Avrech, Rodney King, Second Amendment | 2 Responses

Daniel Greenfield to Deliver 2017 Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: April 4, 2017

You are all invited to the Fourteenth Annual Ariel Avrech ZT’L Memorial Lecture that will take place Sunday, June 11, 2017, at 10 AM, followed by brunch.

Posted in Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture, Ariel Chaim Avrech | Also tagged Daniel Greenfield | Leave a comment

Rabbi Philip Harris Singer, z’l, 10th Yahrzeit

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: June 30, 2016

Today is the yahrzeit [anniversary] of the death of Karen’s beloved father, Rabbi Philip Harris Singer, Pinchas Zvi. This is the speech our son-in-law delivered on 6/23/16 at the brit milah [circumcision ceremony] for our grandson who was named for Karen’s distinguished father. Our son is named after Aliza’s maternal grandfather, Rabbi Pinchas Zvi Singer, A”H. We […]

Posted in Brit Milah, Family, Judaism, Rabbi Pinchas Zvi Singer, Torah, Yahrtzeit | Also tagged Celia Kahn, Karen's Father, Phillip Harris Singer, yahrtzeit | 8 Responses

How I Married Karen 39 Years Ago Today

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: June 19, 2016

Today is our 39th wedding anniversary. But as readers of Seraphic Secret know, I have been helplessly, hopelessly in love with Karen since fourth grade when I first saw her on the playground of our elementary school, Yeshiva of Flatbush. Without Karen, I never would have accomplished much in life. It was her faith that […]

Posted in Ariel Chaim Avrech, Family, How I Married Karen, Wedding Anniversary | Also tagged How I Married Karen, Marriage, Robert J. Avrech, Seven Samurai, Shalom Zachar, Yeshiva of Flatbush | 5 Responses

Ben Shapiro to Deliver 2016 Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: March 17, 2016

You are all invited to The Thirteenth Annual Ariel Avrech ZT’L Memorial Lecture that will take place Sunday, May 22, 2016, at 10 AM, followed by brunch. For those unable to attend the lecture will be posted here at Seraphic Secret. Karen and I are delighted to announce that our friend Ben Shapiro will deliver this year’s lecture, “How You Can Save […]

Posted in Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture, Ariel Chaim Avrech, Israel | Also tagged Ariel Avrech, Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture, Ben Shapiro, Yeshiva Gedolah | Leave a comment

Ben Shapiro to Deliver 2016 Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: March 1, 2016

Posted in Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture, Ariel Chaim Avrech, Israel | Also tagged Ben Shapiro, Cal State, Democrat Fascism | 6 Responses

Sukkot, The Past is Never Past

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 27, 2015

As Jews all over the world make last minute preparations for the holiday of Sukkot, here are a few wonderful pictures of Jews celebrating this joyous holiday in Israel (and Samarkand), a reminder that Torah Judaism is eternal. All photos are from The Library of Congress. You will dwell in booths for seven days; all […]

Posted in Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Succos | Also tagged Booths, Bukharin Jews, Jews of Samarkand, Leviticus 23:42, Lielle Meital, Livia Yarden, Ma'ayan Ariel, Succah, Succot, Succot in Israel, Sukkah, Sukkot, Torah Judaism, Uzbekistan | 8 Responses

Repentance and Liberty

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

by Karen Singer Avrech This past Shabbat our rabbi delivered the traditional Shabbat T’shuvah drasha, (homily). His essential message was that Modern Orthodoxy is doomed unless the importance of traditional halacha (jurisprudence) is understood and respected. Recent trends have favored “dynamism” and “innovation” to match the times, but have neglected the legalistic principles that have […]

Posted in Judaism, Yom Kippur | Also tagged Korach's Rebellion, Progressive Politics, Torah | 11 Responses

Yom Kippur 2015

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 22, 2015

…In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and you shall not do any work … For on that day he shall provide atonement for you to cleanse you from all your sins before the L-RD. —Leviticus 16:29-30

Posted in Jewish Photography, Judaism, Photography, Yom Kippur | Also tagged Kotel, Little Western Wall, Western Wall, Yom Kippur | 5 Responses

How I Married Karen Thirty-Eight Years Ago Today

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: June 19, 2015

Today is our 38th wedding anniversary. But as readers of Seraphic Secret know, I have been helplessly, hopelessly in love with Karen since 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 […]

Posted in Family, How I Married Karen, Love, Wedding Anniversary | Also tagged Robert J. Avrech, Yeshiva Flatbush | 19 Responses

Larry Elder: The New Black Anti-Semitism, Video

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: June 15, 2015

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjRkPqEM1kg[/youtube] Presenting The 12th Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture with Larry Elder: “The New Black Antisemitism” June 7, 2015. Larry Elder, the sage of L.A. gives a deeply personal talk about the irrationality of black anti-semitism, and how his own life has been enhanced and entwined with that of the Jewish people.

Posted in Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture, Family | Also tagged Ben Shapiro, Larry Elder, Robert J. Avrech | 14 Responses

Larry Elder Lecture Huge Success

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

Yesterday, Sunday June 7, was the Twelfth Annual Ariel Avrech memorial Lecture. Larry Elder, the Sage of L.A., spoke about the New Black Anti-Smitism. But Larry’s talk was far more personal than standard politics. Larry spoke lovingly of the Jewish State, a trip he took to Israel in his youth, and a rather unique, if […]

Posted in Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture, Family, Friends, Israel, Jerusalem, Larry Elder | Also tagged Ariel Chaim Avrech, Black AntiSemitism, Rabbi Elazar Muskin, Robert J. Avrech | 28 Responses

Friday Photos: UnBaltimore Edition

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 1, 2015

The Baltimore neighborhood that saw the worst of the violence was already filled with many burned-out buildings and vacant lots that had not been rebuilt since the 1968 riots that followed the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Source via my friend Neo-Neocon Nothing more to say but enjoy the photos.

Posted in Art, Baltimore Riots, Brigitte Bardot, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography | Also tagged Audrey Hepburn, Baltimore Orioles, Cal Ripken, Catherine Deneuve, Constance Bennett, Dorothy Gish, Elvis Presley, Emma Matzo, Francois Dorleac, Gustav Klimt, Hedy Lamarr, Joan Bennett, Joan Fontaine, John Wayne, Jr., Lillian Gish, Lizabeth Scott, Marilyn Monroe, Micha Bar-Am, Olivia de Havilland, Pablo Picasso, Rabbi Philip Harris Singer, Rudolph Valentino | 14 Responses

How Important Are Shared Memories?

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: March 23, 2015

More than anything, I look forward to Friday night Shabbat dinner. Frequently, Karen and I are invited to friend’s homes where we and other guests talk, eat, and sing sweet Shabbat songs. But when I’m alone with Karen on Friday night, there is a certain magic that happens — and I never know what form […]

Posted in Family, How I Married Karen, Marriage, Shabbos, Yeshiva Flatbush | Also tagged book covers, Men and Women, Proust, Shabbos, Shared Memories, Yeshiva Flatbush | 24 Responses

Friday Photos — Scattered Edition

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: November 21, 2014

Usually, we publish photos organized around a central theme. Not today. We’re feeling a bit scattered. We’re spooked by the Emperor Obama, by what’s happening to this country. And of course by the Arab Muslim war against the Jews. The Iranians are edging closer to becoming a nuclear power. We are watching various national and […]

Posted in Anna May Wong, Art, Brigitte Bardot, Hollywood in Stitches, Marilyn Monroe, Photography | Also tagged American Flag, Ariel Chaim, Broome Street, Edward Hopper, Marilyn Monroe, New York Movie, Norma Jean, Shalom of Safed, Still Photography, Susan Hayward | 7 Responses

Obama: A Professional Diagnosis

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 22, 2014

Ever since Barack Hussein Obama burst onto the national scene, Seraphic Secret has maintained that this ideologically rigid leftist is riddled with personal pathologies that, given the opportunity to metastize, will spell a decline of Americanism at home and abroad. And when American power and influence wane, the vacuum is rapidly colonized by the wicked […]

Posted in ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazi Kidnappings, IslamoNazis, Obama Watch | Also tagged Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Obama's Pathologies, Psychological assessment, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen | 23 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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Annual Ariel Avrech
Memorial Lectures
Young Israel of Century City
NOTE: Click on video titles inside the thumbnail images, below, to open that video in YouTube

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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