Tag Archives: Ma’ayan Ariel

Independence Day: Once Upon A Time Hollywood Loved America

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: July 4, 2018

A long time ago, in a universe far far away, in a place called Hollywood, the movie studios and the actors who flourished in those dream factories, celebrated their love of America and enthusiastically indulged in overt displays of patriotism. L.B. Mayer (b. Lazar Meir) the powerful head of MGM, was a pioneer of the […]

Posted in Ann Blyth, Ava Gardner, Bette Davis, Betty Grable, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Twelvetrees, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, July 4th, Lana Turner, Madge Evans, Marilyn Monroe, Movies, Photography, Rita Hayworth | Also tagged America, Anita Page, Ann Blythe, Ava Gardner, Betty, Betty Compson, Colleen Moore, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Twelvetrees, Hollywood, Independence Day, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, July 4th, L.B. Mayer, Lana Turner, Leila Hyams, Ma'ayan Ariel, Madge Evans, Marian Marsh, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Doran, Patriotism, Rita Hayworth | 4 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, Karen Singer Avrech, Leviticus 23:42, Lielle Meital, Livia Yarden, Ma'ayan Ariel, Succah, Succot, Succot in Israel, Sukkah, Sukkot, Torah Judaism, Uzbekistan | 8 Responses

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 14, 2015

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, Lielle Meital, Livia Yarden, Ma'ayan Ariel, Marsden Hartley, Modigliani, Moontide, Naava Applebaum | 9 Responses

Seraphic Secret in the Land of Israel, Part III

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 6, 2015

Posted in Family, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Photography | Also tagged Angelica, Breslov Hasidim, Bus #14 Bombing, Dancing in the streets, Ein Prat, Headstone Carving, Holy Ark, Jeremiah, Livia Yarden, Ma'ayan Ariel, Martha and the Vandellas, Menachem Begin Museum, Nahal Prat, Restaurant Review, Reverand Martin Luther King | 12 Responses

Seraphic Secret In the Land of Israel, Part I

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 4, 2015

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

Friday Photos: There Ought To Be a Law

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: June 12, 2015

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, Lielle Meital, 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

Friday Photos: Democrat Privilege

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 29, 2015

Pop quiz: Why isn’t the Justice Department investigating the Clinton money laundering operation? Any other so-called charity would be under multiple federal and state indictments. Hillary Clinton had her own private server when she was Secretary of State. This is indefensible. She destroyed 30,000 emails? Does anyone believe that all these emails were about yoga […]

Posted in Anna May Wong, Art, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaism, Marilyn Monroe | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Ancient Judaica, Anish Kapoor, Anne Francis, Audrey Hepburn, Baseball, Beechnut Gum, Cary Grant, Craig Kneidler, Craig Kreindler, Gene Tierney, James Nares, Lauren Bacall, Livia Yarden, Lou Gherig, Ma'ayan Ariel, Matisse, Modigliani, Myrna Loy, Sidney Lumet | 11 Responses

Friday Photos: In Every Generation

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: April 9, 2015

On Passover, Jews around the world recite a passage from the Haggadah that strikes a note both poignant and defiant. In every generation they [our enemies] rise up against us to destroy us, but the Holy One Blessed Be He saves us from their hands. But Judaism does not place faith in faith alone. Man […]

Posted in Art, Brigitte Bardot, Friday Fotos, Holidays, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Iran, Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jean Harlow, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, Jewish Holidays, Joan Crawford, Judaism, Kim Novak, Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Monroe, Passover, Susan Hayward | Also tagged Anish Kapoor, Clyfford Still, Ethiopian Jews, Ethiopian Passover, Jews of Iran, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Ma'ayan Ariel, Matzoh, Otis Kaye, Passover in Iran, Passover in Manila, The Yellow Ticket | 19 Responses

Update from France: Four Hostages Killed — A Call For the Reformation of Islam

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 9, 2015

Reports indicate that French SWAT teams have stormed the kosher market. Four hostages are dead. Baruch Dayan Emet. Why did the IslamoNazis take hostages in a kosher market? Were their cartoonists hanging out in the aisles on erev Shabbat? Of course not. The IslamoNazis were there to kill Jews. Because that’s what IslamoNazis do; it’s […]

Posted in France, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazi Kidnappings, IslamoNazis, Israel, Saudi Arabia | Also tagged Abdal el Fatah Sisi, Boko Haram, Charlei Hebdo, Egypt, Jewish Hostages, Livia Yarden, Ma'ayan Ariel, Reformation of Islam | 16 Responses

France: IslamoNazis Seize Kosher Market

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 9, 2015

And of course, the Charlie Hebdo massacre leads to the Jews of France.

Posted in France, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazi Kidnappings, IslamoNazis, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, Jihad Watch | Also tagged Charlie Hebdo, Jewish Hostages, Jews of France', Livia Yarden, Ma'ayan Ariel | 5 Responses

Friday Photos: Because the World Really is Burning

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 19, 2014

Is it our imagination or is the global order falling into systemic disorder? North Korea, a giant gulag, has managed to intimidate the entire Hollywood system. Meanwhile, the Obama regime, allegedly sworn to defend and protect America from all threats foreign and domestic, seems far more interested in cozying up to the ruthless tyrants of […]

Posted in Art, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Chanukah, Clark Gable, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Leaning Boards, Marilyn Monroe, Movies | Also tagged American citizenship, Charlie Chaplin, Genia Keiler, Grace Kelly, James Nares, JM Turner, Kotel, Leaning Boards, Ma'ayan Ariel, My Fair Lady, Red Dust, Rex Harrison, The Great Dictator, Vermeer | 13 Responses

Friday Photos: Just Because the World is Still Burning…

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 12, 2014

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, Lielle Meital, Ma'ayan Ariel, Monk Strap Shoes, North Korea Hacks Sony, Painting, Red Dust, Sony Studios, Utagawa Hiroshige, Wayne F. Miller | 8 Responses

Friday Photos: Just Because the World is Burning…

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 5, 2014

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 way […]

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, Lielle Meital, Ma'ayan Ariel, Mary Nolan, Miss Elsie Palmer | 11 Responses

John Wayne Stumbles Into Overtime

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 12, 2014

Scott Eyman’s superb biography of John Wayne presents a multi-dimensional portrait of a good and decent man who went out of his way to help others. But out of intrinsic modesty, Wayne never made his kindness and charity a public calling card. Before becoming a superstar in Stagecoach (1939), Wayne was working like a dog, […]

Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, John Wayne | Also tagged Adrian Booth, B Westerns, Duke, George Sherman, Lorna Gray, Ma'ayan Ariel, Movie Extras, Overtime for Movie Extras, Red River Range, Republic Pictures, Scott Eyman, Shabbat, Stagecoach, Virginia Pound | 11 Responses

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

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: June 21, 2013

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

Just Because

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: March 29, 2013

Posted in Family | Also tagged Ma'ayan Ariel, Shabbat | 8 Responses

Friday Photos: Random

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 4, 2013

Totally random selection of photos today. Enjoy!

Posted in Friday Footwear, Friday Fotos, How I Married Karen | Also tagged Footwear, James Nares, Jewish Tartan, Ma'ayan Ariel, Michael Kors Ionna Pump, Phantom of the Opera | 3 Responses

Friday Photos: How I Spent My Summer Vacation

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 17, 2012

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, Lielle Meital, Ma'ayan Ariel, shoes, Terranea Resort, Vacation, Yosemite | 12 Responses

Friday Photo: Maayan Ariel, American Girl

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 10, 2012

Maayan Ariel and I were playing together in the courtyard when she asked me about the flag flying outside our home. “It means we’re proud of our country, proud to be Americans.” “I’m proud too,” she said with solid conviction. “A proud American girl.” “Take a picture, Saba.” (Hebrew: grandfather) “Okaaay!” Karen and I and […]

Posted in Family, Friday Fotos | Also tagged American Flag, Ma'ayan Ariel | 7 Responses

Friday Photos

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 18, 2012

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 flat […]

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

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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