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By Robert J. Avrech | February 25, 2013

Outgunning Gun Violence With The Goodness of Guns

Tweet The destructive and immoral policies of the radical left are enforced on American culture through a systematic abuse of language. George Orwell understood that those who control language control culture. In his brilliant novel about the nightmare of modern totalitarian regimes, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Newspeak is the language of Big Brother and its vast propaganda [...]

Posted in Jew-haters, Obama Watch, Second Amendment | Also tagged Big Brother, George Orwell, Liberal Fascists, Nineteen Eighty-Four | 16 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 12, 2012

Friday Photos: Montage

Tweet Last night’s Vice-Presidential debate was most notable for the optics delivered to the public. No matter what the candidates said, their style conveyed a powerful message. Joe Biden, a bombastic wind-bag, smirked, snarled, rolled his eyes, laughed, and displayed contempt for Congressman Ryan. In contrast, young Paul Ryan was dignified, earnest, polite, respectful and [...]

Posted in Brigitte Bardot, Friday Fotos, Media, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson | Also tagged Joe Biden, Los Angeles Photography, Optics, Paul Ryan, VP Debate | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 16, 2011

Friday Footwear: Into Thin Air

Tweet Several days ago Seraphic Secret received this email from a loyal but unhappy reader: Dear Robert: It’s been ages since you posted a Friday Footwear blog. I get it. You like to write about Israel. Awesome. I’m a Christian Zionist who loves the Jewish people. You like to cut Obama down to size. Double [...]

Posted in Friday Footwear | Also tagged Chester Morris, Fashion, Jean Harlow, Loehmann's, Target | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 5, 2011

Friday Fotos: iPhone & I

Tweet My morning goes something like this: 1. Up at about 5:30, maybe 6:00 a.m. 2. Shacharit, morning prayers. 3. Breakfast: fresh fruit sprinkled with non-fat plain yogurt while reading the Wall Street Journal. 4. Write Seraphic Secret blog. Hope I don’t make an idiot of myself with the day’s post. 5. Work on latest [...]

Posted in Friday Fotos | Also tagged Beverly Hills, Blogging, iPhone, Jewish Art, Los Angeles, Screenwriting, Shabbat, Street Signs | 21 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 2, 2011

Obama and the Bad Father: A Psychological Profile

Tweet In the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Fouad Ajami published a devastating analysis of Obama’s foreign policy. Ajami focuses on Obama’s reflexive radical leftist ideology that posits a phantom American colonialism and neo-colonialism as the original sins for which we must atone. In his encounters with the foreign world, Mr. Obama gave voice to a [...]

Posted in Obama Watch | Also tagged Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Obama Sr., Psychological profile | 18 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 29, 2011

Friday Footwear

Tweet “I wonder what shoes she’ll be wearing,” Karen says. Karen and I are on our way to a late afternoon barbecue given by friends here in LA, a couple we have known since we moved to California over 20 years ago. Like us, they are from New York, orthodox Jews from humble circumstances who [...]

Posted in Friday Footwear | Also tagged Anne Francis, Family, Fashion, Forbidden Planet, Friends, High Heels, Los Angeles, Migraine, Robby the Robot | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 13, 2011

Stupid American Jews Getting Not-so-Stupid, or: How American Jews Learned to Start Worrying About Obama

Tweet We know: it’s crazy paranoid to assume that a man who was mentored for over 20-years by a rabid Jew-hater just might have a few, um, issues, with Jews and Israel. But hey, Seraphic Secret did not go to an Ivy League college, nor did we attend graduate school where common sense is, North [...]

Posted in Israel, Politics, Zionism | Also tagged Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jewish Democrats, John Wayne, Obama | 18 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 12, 2011

Karen Speaks to Speaker Boehner

Tweet America is on the edge of an economic precipice. Obama’s stimulus is an utter and complete failure. The latest unemployment figures are not just bad, they are disastrous, truly alarming. Obama, like a petulant child, still blames George Bush. This is not just unseemly and immature, but a grotesque distortion of reality. Either Obama [...]

Posted in Economy | Also tagged National Debt, Obama, Slavery | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 8, 2011

Bag of Tricks

Tweet In Rear Window, 1954, Grace Kelly’s elegant Mark Cross bag emerges as something of a major character, a twin symbol of desire—Kelly cooly snaps opens the bag, unfurling a fetching neglige—and the domesticity Jimmy Stewart finds so intimidating. Women’s handbags are more than repositories of oh-so-necessary possessions but a reflection of a woman’s priorities [...]

Posted in Friday Fashion, Handbags | Also tagged Celine, Fendi, Glamour, Grace Kelly, Hermes, Jill Sander, Jimmy Stewart, Klein Tool Bag, Mark Cross, Movies, Rear Window, Shabbat, Vuitton | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 1, 2011

Friday Fotos

Tweet Readers of Seraphic Secret know that yours truly likes to take long walks around my Los Angeles neighborhood and take pictures of stuff. Shlepping my Canon SLR is a pain in the neck—literally. Thus, for the past few years, I’ve been carrying the fine and compact Canon PowerShot . But recently, I switched the [...]

Posted in Friday Fotos | Also tagged Apple, Ava Gardner, Ballet Flats, Brigitte Bardot, Chanel, Footwear, iPhone, Los Angeles, Ma'ayan Ariel, One Touch of Venus, Photography, Twitter | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 19, 2011

Endless Love: Happy 34th Anniversary

Tweet Karen and I enter Yichud, June 19, 1977. Tweet Today is our 34th wedding anniversary. I have been in love with Karen since we were nine year-old children attending Yeshiva Flatbush elementary school in Brooklyn. This is an excerpt from How I Married Karen and details the moments right after the Chuppah. Alone Together [...]

Posted in How I Married Karen | Also tagged Yeshiva Flatbush | 21 Responses

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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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