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Category Archives: Robert J. Avrech
The Seraphic Secret Girls
Robert Avrech writes: Several years ago, spotting a soft-focus Kodak moment, I whipped out my trusty Canon and focused on one of my girlses. “No, don’t shoot me, I look horrible!” What’s going on here, I thought to myself, am … Continue reading
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Tagged family portfolio, kodak moment, minhag, robert avrech, secret girls, snick
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Why Wasn’t Hamas Invited?
Robert J. Avrech writes: There’s been a certain amount of carefully orchestrated controversy swirling round the NBNFIJBC. Backstory: A notorious apologist for Muslim terror whispered to Haaretz—duh—that the conference was made up of right wing religious nuts. Some Haaretz hack—redundancy, … Continue reading
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Tagged author id, blood libel, hack job, journalistic objectivity, religious nuts, treppenwitz
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The Moroccan Amen
Robert J. Avrech writes: Before we eat, I mount the stairs to wash my hands. There is a Moroccan mother—her Hebrew accent is distinctively Moroccan—with a brood of children near the washing station. Mom’s eyes are painted in blue eye-shadow … Continue reading
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Tagged american audiences, blue eye shadow, mr darcy, pride and prejudice, scoop neck, skin tight jeans
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Robert J. Avrech – Meanie
He blogs about his flight to the Jewish bloggers conference in Jerusalem tomorrow: FADE IN: INT. VIRGIN AMERICA PLANE – NIGHT “So what do you?” I’m on my L.A. to N.Y. flight and I’ve been pecking away at my computer … Continue reading
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Tagged conversation stopper, i pod, jerusalem tomorrow, taxi drivers, twenty five years, virgin america
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Ariel Teaches Daf Yomi
Robert J. Avrech writes: Today, 1 Tammuz, is Ariel Chaim’s ZT’L fifth Yahrtzeit. In honor of our son’s memory we’re publishing an excerpt from The Book of Ariel that recounts the period when Ariel taught Daf Yomi—the daily page of … Continue reading
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Tagged babylonian talmud, daf yomi, rabbi pinchas, rabbi yosef, torah scholar, yahrtzeit
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