One of the greatest war movies ever produced was “The Big Parade,” 1925, starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée. As we noted last week stories about war are, perhaps, the best, most natural material for the movies. Read More »

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has outlined the religious justification on why it is acceptable to kill all Jews and annihilate Israel. But remember, this has nothing to do with Islam. The prime lesson of Jewish history can be summed up like this: When someone says they are going to kill you, believe them. Read More »

Muslims burn another Copt church in Egypt. The mob chanted “Allahu Akhbar” but remember, it’s got nothing to do with Islam. The centerpiece of Obama’s foreign policy was, as he stated quite clearly at the advent of his administration, outreach to the Muslim world and by implication a chilling of realtions with israel. Read More »

Freedom: Marilyn, Lincoln, a convertible, and the open road. America has long had a love affair with the automobile. Cars are the ultimate expression of form, function, fashion—and speed. But most of all the car represents freedom. Read More »

It makes perfect sense that the first epic American movie was about war, “Birth of a Nation,” 1915. There is no subject as well suited for the movies as war. In war there is conflict, love, and of course lots of explosions. Movies, someone once said, are just like life, only with the boring parts cut out. Read More »

Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland put on a show. Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland famously cried out: “Hey kids let’s put on a show!” Well, the Pal Arabs do the exact same thing. Except not so much. A few days ago we posted a video of American-supported Palestinian TV celebrating the slaughter of five members of the Fogel family . Read More »

This is an incredibly powerful video of the brilliant and erudite British Conservative Douglas Murray speaking at Cambridge about a nuclear Iran. It’s eleven minutes long and builds to an incredible pitch of logic and emotion. Stay with it. Click here to view the embedded video. Allow me to underline several of Murray’s most important points: 1. Read More »

Massacred by Arab Muslim terrorists because they were Jews: Top: Ruth and Ehud Fogel. Bottom: Eldad, 4, Yoav, 11, and Hadas, 3 months who was decapitated. Read More »

Mordechai Kedar, formerly of the Intelligence Division of the IDF. Dr. Kedar speaks Arabic fluently. Further, he understands that the Judeo Christian civilization and the world of Islam might as well be on different planets. Dr. Kedar speaks forcefully to the Arab-Muslim world without apology or appeasement. Read More »

The Talmud (Shabbat 113a) tells us that Rabbi Yochanan called his clothing, “The things that honor me.” Seraphic Secret believes that what we wear tells the world who we are and how we wish to be treated. If you dress like a slob and then get annoyed when people treat you like a slob, well, you only have yourself to blame. Read More »

Ben Hecht, screenwriter and novelist, the Shakespeare of Hollywood. From where do we draw wisdom? First and foremost, Seraphic Secret relies on the Torah, on 3,000 years of Jewish history and wisdom. Read More »

Last night President Obama delivered the first major speech of his reelection campaign. There is no state of the union. As always, there is only the narcissist-in-charge and his free-spending empress—Michelle was wearing Barbara Tfank’s $2,400.00 dress. Read More »

We have yet to hear Leon Panetta state that he finds the Taliban war crimes “utterly deplorable.” When a few Marines urinated on the bodies of dead Taliban terrorists in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan, the outcry from the the chattering classes was immediate and very loud. Read More »

Click here to view the embedded video.   The more things change, the more they stay the same. The original Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini , was an admirer and ally of Hitler and Mussolini. He helped recruit Muslims for the Waffen-SS. Read More »

Charlie Chaplin, 1924, the image of effortless style. The operative word is effortless. In truth, Chaplin’s style was only achieved through the superlative tailoring of the English Savile Row firm, Anderson & Sheppard. Read More »

Still from “Marketa Lazarova,” 1967, a Czechoslovakian film I have screened about half a dozen times and have yet to understand what the heck is going on. But the imagery is haunting and spectacular. Hollywood has always been fascinated by trashy vamps and holy nuns. Obviously, these polar opposites provoke strong reactions in audiences. Read More »

Reverend Dr. DeeDee M. Coleman is the Pastor of the Russell Street Missionary Baptist Church in Oak Park, Michigan. This past Shabbat, Rev. Dr. DeeDee M. Coleman and Bishop Kenneth Ulmer were guest speakers at my synagogue, the Young Israel of Century City . Read More »

Ilse van Heusden, Jew-hater. The hydra head of Jew-hatred appears in an article by Ilse van Heusden, a Dutch woman who gave birth to a healthy boy in Israel. She points out that her medical care was excellent. In fact, too excellent, proof positive that Israel is a rascist society. To be pregnant in Israel is comparable to a military operation. Read More »

The coffin of nuclear scientist Mustafa Ahmadi Roshan is paraded through the streets of Tehran. Picture: AP Source: AP As the 2012 presidential election draws near, Barack Obama has abandoned his failed presidency in favor of doing what he does best, running for office, More than anything, Obama fears an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Read More »

Alfred Hitchcock in Harper’s Bazaar, 1956. Seraphic Secret was glancing through the latest issue of the “National Enquirer” the other day—how else am I going to learn about what’s going on in Hollywood?—and was absolutely horrified to discover that Read More »