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.
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)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)
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Tag Archives: Lielle Meital
Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
Posted in Art, Billy Wilder, Elizabeth Taylor, Ellen Burstyn, Hollywood, Lauren Bacall, Painting, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions
Also tagged Cecil Beaton, Elizabeth Taylor, Ellen Burstyn, George Platt Lynes, George Stevens, Ginger Rogers, James Dean, James Nares, Jozef Israëls, Lauren Bacall, Paul Signac, Ursula Andress, Vintage Cars, Within These Walls, Wristwatches
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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
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Sukkot, The Past is Never Past
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, Karen Singer Avrech, Leviticus 23:42, Livia Yarden, Ma'ayan Ariel, Succah, Succot, Succot in Israel, Sukkah, Sukkot, Torah Judaism, Uzbekistan
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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
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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
Friday Photos: Just Because the World is Still Burning…
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, 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
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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
Passover 2013: Of Slaves, Slavery, Judenrat, Kapos and America
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 a […]
Posted in Obama Watch, Obamacare, Passover, Taxes
Also tagged Big Government, Democrat Fascism, Judenrat, Kapos, Slavery, Soft Tyranny
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Friday Photos: Whatever
No theme today. Just a random collection of fun photos. Enjoy!
Friday Footwear: Lielle Meital Kicks Up Her Heels
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
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Friday Footwear: Lielle Meital’s Little Cat Feet
Posted in Family, Friday Fashion, Friday Footwear
Also tagged Carl Sandburg, Little Cat Feet
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Friday Photos: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
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 a […]
Posted in Family, Friday Footwear, Friday Fotos
Also tagged Jewish Wedding, Ma'ayan Ariel, shoes, Terranea Resort, Vacation, Yosemite
12 Responses
Notable War Movies, Russian and Finnish
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 War […]
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
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The Joy of Purim, 2012
Now, let’s step into a time machine and witness the joy of Purim in Tel Aviv, 1932:
Top 10 of 2011
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, wrestling […]
