I Only Want To Be With You
Consider this a footnote to my series: How I Married Karen. First the song, then the story: Click here to view the embedded video. A few days ago I was watching a movie when suddenly, in the middle...
View ArticleThe Devil’s Arithmetic
Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day. I’m posting Part I of my movie, The Devil’s Arithmetic for viewing. The film stars Kirsten Dunst and the late Brittany Murphy in spectacular performances....
View ArticleFriday Photos: Whatever
No overiding theme today. Just random photos of whatever struck my fancy at any given moment. Every time I pass this sculpture near Rodeo Drive in I have the urge to stop and shmooze. A window in...
View ArticleAngel
On vacation in New England with Ariel when he was a baby, 1981. This coming Sunday, June 3, 2012 is the Ninth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture. Click here for details. For those who cannot attend...
View ArticleFriday Fashion: The Female Animal
George Hurrell's legendary photo of Jean Harlow on a bearskin rug is the iconic image of the female animal. In last week’s Friday Fashion post we observed that designers frequently clothe women...
View ArticleEndless Love: Happy 35th Anniversary
“How I Married Karen” is soon to be an e-book. I am obsessively rewriting and editing but hope to have it up very soon. (Cover design by Offspring #2.) I have been in love with my wife Karen since I...
View ArticleRabbi Meir Soloveichik’s RNC Invocation, Plus Happy Birthday, Karen
Click here to view the embedded video. Seraphic Secret is afraid that the opening invocation for the Republican National Convention has not been widely circulated or understood. But this was an...
View ArticleHow I Married Karen: The EBook
At last, How I Married Karen, the story of my perfect imperfection, has been published as an ebook. I fell hopelessly and helplessly in love with Karen when we were fourth-grade classmates in the...
View ArticleJew Without a Gun
I am republishing my three-part series about the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 in which Karen and I and the children were trapped for several frightening hours. We were unarmed, helpless save for our wits....
View ArticleHow I Married Karen, The EBook
At last, How I Married Karen, the story of my perfect imperfection, has been published as an ebook. I fell hopelessly and helplessly in love with Karen when we were fourth-grade classmates in the...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolutions for 2013
This looks like a picture of Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds. It’s really crack. Seriously. I do not smoke. I do not drink. I’m not overweight. Exercise? I take a three mile walk every day...
View ArticleCh-Ch-Changes, Plus Personal C-C-Confessions
Adam Corolla has a wonderful and important new video for Prager University about the amazing, and oh-so-necessary human capacity for change. First the video, and then a personal confession. Click here...
View ArticleThe Seraphic Secret Study of Fat Lesbians
Yesterday, Seraphic Secret reported that the Obama administration is going to spend $1.5 million tax dollars to find out why lesbians are fat. This is, after all, a burning social issue that demands...
View ArticleDavid Horowitz to Deliver the Tenth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture
Ariel Avrech, Z”TL, May His Memory Be A Blessing You are all invited to The tenth annual Ariel Avrech ZT’L Memorial Lecture that will take place Sunday, June 9, 2013, at 10 AM at the Young Israel of...
View ArticleHow I Married Karen Thirty-Six Years Ago Today
My bride, Karen, June 19, 1977 Today is our 36th wedding anniversary. But as readers of Seraphic Secret know, I have been helplessly, hopelessly in love with Karen ever since the fourth grade, when I...
View ArticleMuslim Brotherhood Says Interim President Is A Jew, Secretly Backed By Israel…
A few days ago, when the mobs were gathering in Tahrir Square and the talking heads were all agog about another Arab Spring, I turned to Karen and said, “How long before these—ahem—freedom fighters,...
View ArticleKirkus Reviews “How I Married Karen”
I’ve always been ambivalent about critics and their reviews of my work. I confess to being stung by bad reviews and, of course, elated by good ones. Remaining indifferent has never been an option....
View ArticleMichael Medved to Deliver the 2014 Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture
Ariel’s high school graduation picture from Yeshiva Gedolah, Los Angeles, June 1998. You are all invited to The Eleventh Annual Ariel Avrech ZT’L Memorial Lecture that will take place Sunday, June 8,...
View ArticleMichael Medved to Deliver 2014 Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture
Ariel’s high school graduation picture from Yeshiva Gedolah, Los Angeles, June 1998. You are all invited to The Eleventh Annual Ariel Avrech ZT’L Memorial Lecture that will take place Sunday, June 8,...
View ArticleThe Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture Presents Michael Medved
The Eleventh Annual Ariel Avrech Yahrtzeit Lecture took place on Sunday June 8, 2014 at the Young Israel of Century City. The title of Michael Medved’s lecture is: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No...
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