Tag Archives: Los Angeles

By Robert J. Avrech | October 16, 2015

Friday Photos: Robert & Karen Abroad

Posted in Art, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marilyn Monroe, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Broad Museum, Charles Ray, Cindy Sherman, Cy Twombly, Ellsworth Kelly, Hedy Lamarr, Jeff Koons, John Currin, Mark Grotjahn, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Therrien, Roy Lichtenstein, Sam Francis | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 23, 2014

Brief Encounter LA Style and Operation Protective Edge

Tweet Yesterday, Karen and I made a trip to a local mall. On our way to the Apple store we passed a skin-care salon. Standing in the doorway was an elegant young man who handed a free sample to Karen. We said thank you, and the young man, an Israeli who spotted my yarmulke, said, […]

Posted in Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Operation Protective Edge | Also tagged Hamas, Jew Meets Jew, Terror Tunnels | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 24, 2012

Friday Photos: Blue

Tweet Wandering around my beautiful neighborhood recently, I’ve noticed lots of blue. Always on the lookout for compelling Friday Photos, I decided that blue would be a fun theme. And then, once I made that decision, all I saw was blue: blue cars, blue buildings — you name it, it’s blue. I suppose the same […]

Posted in Friday Fotos, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson | Also tagged art, blue things, Jewish Swiss Army Knife, Photography, robin rose, The Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough, Your Blue-Eyed Boy | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 18, 2012

Friday Photos

Tweet Hypothetical question: Your house is on fire. Everyone is safe. You can run in and rescue one item. What will it be? The answer, overwhelmingly, is family photos. We are the sum of our memories. Photos help us capture time and space, preserve moments that otherwise would be lost. I seek the ordinary, the […]

Posted in Friday Fotos, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Photography, Signs | Also tagged Andy Hardy, Beverlywood, graffiti, Ma'ayan Ariel, Photography, Shabbat, Street Photography | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 4, 2012

Friday Photos: Whatever

Tweet No overiding theme today. Just random photos of whatever struck my fancy at any given moment.

Posted in Friday Fotos, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Photography, Signs | Also tagged Beverly Hills, Karen Singer Avrech, Photography, Pico Boulevard, Rodeo Drive | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 1, 2011

This Land of Film Noir

Tweet Every morning I rise at about five AM, don my sweats, hook up my iPhone’s music function and take a brisk three-mile walk. The streets of Los Angeles at this time of the morning are wet, slick from all the lawn sprinklers that explode with a fearsome hiss in the middle of the night. […]

Posted in Hollywood, Movies | Also tagged Cornel Wilde, Double Indemnity, Film Noir, Gun Crazy, Jean Wallace, John Alton, John Dahl, Peggy Cummins, The Big Combo, The Killing | 30 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 12, 2011

I, The Jury

Tweet Seraphic Secret has delayed and delayed for years. But the Superior Court of Los Angeles has run out of patience with yours truly and stated in no uncertain terms that unless I answer the latest Summons for Jury Service I will be subject to a fine, incarceration—that’s legalese for prison—or both. Message received. I […]

Posted in Jury Service | Also tagged Justice, Superior Court | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 17, 2011

Hollywood is Burning, or: Jew Without Gun

Tweet In light of yesterday’s post about Jews and guns and the vigorous, articulate comments from our readers I am republishing my three-part series about the LA Riots of 1992 in which Karen and I and the children were caught. We were unarmed. The police were, um, absent, and the bad guys owned the streets. […]

Posted in Jews & Guns, Los Angeles Riots | Also tagged Guns, Hollywood, Right to Bear Arms, Rodney King, Straw Dogs | 18 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, Karen, Screenwriting, Shabbat, Street Signs | 21 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, Karen, Migraine, Robby the Robot | 8 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, Karen, Ma'ayan Ariel, One Touch of Venus, Photography, Twitter | 9 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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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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