Tag Archives: Lielle Meital

By Robert J. Avrech | July 15, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Aristide Maillol, Brett Weston, Dallas, Dance Girl Dance, Ernest Bachrach, Hedy Lamarr, Jay DeFeo, Joanne Woodward, Joel McCrea, Katherine Hepburn, Kim Novak, Lilla Cabot Perry, Lucille Ball, Milton Avery, Moira Dryer, Paul Newman, Paul Strand, Preston Sturges, Robert Warwick, Ruth Orkin, Sari Srulovitch, Sean Scully, Sullivan's Travels, The Apartment, Wade Hulth | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 27, 2015

Sukkot, The Past is Never Past

Tweet 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; […]

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

By Robert J. Avrech | August 14, 2015

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Faye Dunaway, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Ida Lupino, Jerusalem, Jimmy Stewart, Louise Brooks, Movies, Peter Lorre, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged (My) Burgers, Ben Chapman, Bonnie & Clyde, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Dr. David Applebaum, Edward Hopper, Ein Prat, Jew Without a Gun, Joan Mitchell, Karen's brother, Livia Yarden, Ma'ayan Ariel, Marsden Hartley, Modigliani, Moontide, Naava Applebaum | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 4, 2015

Seraphic Secret In the Land of Israel, Part I

Posted in Family, Israel, Jerusalem, Judaism, Photography, Photography, Signs, Seraphic Secret, Terrorism, Zionism | Also tagged King David, Kotel, Kvittel, Lion of Judah, Ma'ayan Ariel, Old City of Jerusalem, Western Wall | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 12, 2015

Friday Photos: There Ought To Be a Law

Posted in Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Family, Grace Kelly, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Hollywood: Then and Now, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, Myrna Loy, Rudolph Valentino | Also tagged Alice Terry, Allan Dwan, Anna Christie, Anthony Perkins, Bernard Herrmann, Blonde Venus, Busby Berkeley, Dorothy Dandridge, Douglas Fairbanks, Exodus, Garbo, Grace Kelly, Herbert Brenon, Hollywood, Jeanne Eagels, Jimmy Stewart, Joanne Woodward, Last Summer, Ma'ayan Ariel, Mervyn LeRoy, Orson Welles, Paul Newman, Peter Pan, Rear Window, Red Dust, Robin Hood ('22), Suddenly, Sylvia Sidney, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Golem, The Letter, The Trial, Theda Bara | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 12, 2014

Friday Photos: Just Because the World is Still Burning…

Tweet 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 […]

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, James Nares, Jewish Children in Samarkand, John F. Peto, Karen, Ma'ayan Ariel, Monk Strap Shoes, North Korea Hacks Sony, Painting, Red Dust, Sony Studios, Utagawa Hiroshige, Wayne F. Miller | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 5, 2014

Friday Photos: Just Because the World is Burning…

Tweet 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 […]

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, James Nares, John Gilbert, John Singer Sargent, Ma'ayan Ariel, Mary Nolan, Miss Elsie Palmer | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 13, 2014

No Bad News Today

Posted in Family | Tagged Lielle Meital | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 21, 2013

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

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

By Robert J. Avrech | March 25, 2013

Passover 2013: Of Slaves, Slavery, Judenrat, Kapos and America

Tweet Tonight begins the holiday of Passover in which Jews celebrate deliverance from Egyptian bondage. In order to escape the shackles of slavery, the vast machinery of the mighty Egyptian state had to be crushed. Those who wielded absolute power were reduced to nothingness. G-d did this not only to diminish the physical power of […]

Posted in Obama Watch, Obamacare, Passover, Taxes | Also tagged Big Government, Democrat Fascism, Judenrat, Kapos, Slavery, Soft Tyranny | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 28, 2012

Friday Photos: Whatever

Tweet No theme today. Just a random collection of fun photos. Enjoy!

Posted in Friday Fotos, Photography, Family, Girls Love Footwear, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson | Also tagged Greta Garbo, Harold Lloyd, Marilyn Monroe, Mildred Davis | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 6, 2012

Happy Birthday Lielle Meital

Posted in Family | Tagged Lielle Meital | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 5, 2012

Friday Footwear: Lielle Meital Kicks Up Her Heels

Tweet Here are some more pink shoes Lielle has her eyes on.

Posted in Friday Fashion, Friday Footwear, Friday Fotos | Also tagged Brian Atwood, Chanel, Crocs, Jean Paul Gaultier, Lanvin, Louboutin, Pink shoes, Shabbat | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 7, 2012

Friday Footwear: Lielle Meital’s Little Cat Feet

Posted in Family, Friday Fashion, Friday Footwear | Also tagged Carl Sandburg, Little Cat Feet | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 17, 2012

Friday Photos: How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Tweet Summer vacation. Seraphic Secret spent time in Yosemite and not long afterwards, Offspring #2 and family arrived in Los Angeles for a two-week vacation. Activities included a wedding at the Terranea Resort, day trips to museums, playgrounds, and swimming in Casa Avrech’s cement pond. Vacation time is almost over, but our memories will last […]

Posted in Family, Friday Footwear, Friday Fotos | Also tagged Jewish Wedding, Ma'ayan Ariel, shoes, Terranea Resort, Vacation, Yosemite | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | April 12, 2012

Notable War Movies, Russian and Finnish

Tweet Seraphic Secret watches movies in thematic clusters. Last year I concentrated on the work of specific actors, among them: Clara Bow, John Gilbert, Mary Nolan, Lon Chaney, Esther Ralston and, adolescent sigh, Brigitte Bardot. For the past few weeks I’ve been screening war movies, with an emphasis on films from Russia and Finland. World […]

Posted in Finland, Movies, War, War Movies | Also tagged Antti Tuuri, Birth of a Nation, Continuation War, Cuckoo, Finland, Finnish War Movies, Lappland, Passover, Russia, Sami, Shabbat, Suomi submachine gun, The Brest Fortress, Winter War | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | March 8, 2012

The Joy of Purim, 2012

Tweet Now, let’s step into a time machine and witness the joy of Purim in Tel Aviv, 1932:

Posted in Family, Israel, Purim | Also tagged 1932, Purim in Tel Aviv | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 30, 2011

Top 10 of 2011

Tweet If you’re as deeply involved in politics as is Seraphic Secret, if you’re a lover of Zion, as is Seraphic Secret, if you’re terrified of another four years of Obama, as is Seraphic Secret, well, you tend to walk around with a black cloud hovering over your head. But compiling a Ten Best List, […]

Posted in 2011 Top Ten | Also tagged Downton Abbey, Emily W. Leider, Flipboard, IDF Red Para Boots, Karl Marlantes, Killing Bin Laden, Ma'ayan Ariel, Matterhorn, Monalisa, Myrna Loy, Navy Seals, Niall Ferguson, Shabbat, The Artist, The Only Good Girl in Hollywood, The West and the Rest | 9 Responses

How I Married Karen

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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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Fourteenth: June 11, 2016
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: “What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania.”

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