Tag Archives: Ma’ayan Ariel

By Robert J. Avrech | March 29, 2013

Just Because

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

By Robert J. Avrech | January 4, 2013

Friday Photos: Random

Tweet 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

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

By Robert J. Avrech | August 10, 2012

Friday Photo: Maayan Ariel, American Girl

Tweet 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 [...]

Posted in Family, Friday Fotos | Also tagged American Flag, Ma'ayan Ariel | 7 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, Los Angeles, Ma'ayan Ariel, Photography, Shabbat, Street Photography | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | April 6, 2012

Friday Fashion: The Exodus Edition

Tweet On Passover the Jewish people are instructed to envision that they are experiencing the Exodus from Egypt. During the Passover seder (meal) we reenact—through sacred memory animated by ritual—the passage from bondage to slavery. The Torah tells us that the Jews left Egypt with the spoils of their oppressors—compensation for 400 years of cruelty. [...]

Posted in Friday Fashion, Friday Footwear, Holidays, Passover | Also tagged Barbara Briones, Charlotte Olympia, Exodus, Fendi, Gio Dev, Glamour, Gucci, Jerusalem, Ma'ayan Ariel, Manolo Blahnik, Passover Fashion, Seder, Shabbat, Stella McCartney, Tory Burch | 3 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, Lielle Meital, 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

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, Los Angeles, Ma'ayan Ariel, One Touch of Venus, Photography, Twitter | 9 Responses

How I Married Karen

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Robert J. Avrech
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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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audio-only mp3 [15MB]: Ninth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture

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audio-only mp3 [18MB]: Eighth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture

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audio-only mp3 [80MB]: Seventh Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture

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audio-only mp3 [64MB]: Sixth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture

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audio-only mp3 [70MB]: Fifth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture

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