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After one year of the Trump presidency we are hopeful and optimistic. Obama’s JV team, ISIS, has been nearly wiped out. Neil Gorsuch sits on the Supreme Court. The Keystone pipeline is, at last, open. The individual mandate is gone. Which spells the beginning off the end for Obamacare. More and more federal lands are […]

Posted in Donald Trump, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Lizabeth Scott, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford, Movies, Myrna Loy, New Years | Also tagged Betty Grable, Buster Keaton, Greta Herwig, Holiday Inn, Janet Leigh, Joan Crawford, Lady Bird, Laurie Metcalf, Lizabeth Scott, Loretta Young, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford, Saoirse Ronan, Shirley Temple | 4 Responses

Flashback: When Hollywood Celebrated Christmas

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 24, 2017

There was a time when Hollywood openly and joyously celebrated Christmas. Now, among the Hollywood elite, the greeting I hear is “Happy Holidays.” Look, we at Seraphic Secret are Orthodox Jews. This is not our holiday. But we want our Christian friends to celebrate Christmas. The politically correct Happy Holidays shtick is another nail in […]

Posted in Anita Page, Anna May Wong, Carole Lombard, Christianity, Christmas, Clara Bow, Fay Wray, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Marceline Day, Mary Pickford, Rita Hayworth, Shirley Temple | Also tagged Anita Page, Anna May Wong, Carole Lombard, Christmas, Clara Bow, Fay Wray, Jean Harlow, Marceline Day, Mary Pickford, Rita Hayworth, Shirley Temple | 5 Responses

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: November 17, 2017

Posted in Art, Art Deco, Brigitte Bardot, Design, Fashion, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaica, Judaism, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters | Also tagged Adam de Coster, Alternative Movie Posters, Barbara Stanwyck, Barthel Bruyn the Elder, Brigitte Bardot, Cartier, Celia Singer, Frank Sinatra, Ingrid Bergman, Kim Novak, Lawren Stewart Harris, Livia Yarden, Lucas Cranach The Elder, Milton Avery, Pickup on South Street, Sam Fuller, Vincent van Gogh, Vintage Typewriters | 9 Responses

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: November 3, 2017

Posted in Art, Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marlene Dietrich, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Veronica Lake, Vertigo | Also tagged Alternative Movie Posters, Anne Frank, Art Deco, Art Deco Radios, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edward Hopper, Frans van Mieris, Gerard ter Borch, Johannes Vermeer, Kim Novak, Marlene Dietrich, Moira Dryer, Photography, Rear Window, Rick McGinnis, The Birds, Utagawa Kunisada, Veronica Lake | 11 Responses

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: October 4, 2017

No, you have not fallen into a time warp. It is Wednesday. So: why Friday Photos today? The celebration of Succos starts tonight and continues into Shabbat. And because Orthodox Jews (that’s us) do not use electronics during these holidays you get Friday Photos early. We hope you enjoy this edition.

Posted in Art, Brigitte Bardot, Cary Grant, Family, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Photography, Quotes, Sandra Dee, Succos, True Hollywood Confessions, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters | Also tagged Alternative Movie Posters, Bernard Palissy, Cary Grant, Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun, Follow the Fleet, Ginger Rogers, Horst P. Horst, Marilyn Monroe, Sandra Dee, Shabbat, Succos | 6 Responses

How I Married Karen

The new book
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.
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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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