How Purim Differs from Halloween

By Susan Esther Barnes
Published on February 27, 2013

Trick or tweet: Anthony Weiner and Bernie Madoff Halloween masks

Published on October 31, 2011

Are Halloween masks of Jews in the news a trick or just a new treatment?

The Way to a Man’s Heart is Through His Stomach

By Tamara Shayne Kagel
Published on October 28, 2011

Magician Max Maven Reads My Mind [VIDEO]

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on October 26, 2011

Danielewski Serves Up Literary Tricks and Treats

By Tom Teicholz
Published on October 26, 2011

On Halloween this year, instead of being the best sugar pusher in the neighborhood, or following your inappropriately costumed progeny as they amass their candy fortunes, or abandoning your own hard-earned dignity for a night of brew-fueled revelry, let me steer the adults amongst you to REDCAT, the CalArts downtown theater at Walt Disney Concert Hall, where for one night only, Mark Z. Danielewski will conduct a staged reading with shadow puppets and musical accompaniment of his Halloween-set story, “The Fifty Year Sword.” The evening will also raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in honor of the son of one of Danielewski’s close friends, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes on Halloween.

Now it all makes sense—Ahmadinejad is a secret Jew!

By Dennis Wilen
Published on October 25, 2008

Jewish monster ‘The Golem’ arises from the mists, with new music!

By JewishJournal.com
Published on October 30, 2007

Puppet score tugs at Elfman’s heart strings

By Carvin Knowles
Published on September 20, 2007

"My strongest link to my Jewish background is musical," he said. "I found myself drawn to Russian and Eastern European musical roots."

Justice takes a beating in Long Beach racial hatred case

By Joe R. Hicks
Published on February 15, 2007

The basic facts of the case are that last Halloween, a pack of black youths, with no evidence of any provocation, set upon three young white women who had come to an upscale part of Long Beach known to attract trick-or-treaters.

In the ‘hood, the treat is no trick

By David Suissa
Published on November 2, 2006

Halloween is seen as the crowning achievement of secular emptiness. You celebrate, glorify, trivialize and idolize something as deep and holy as death, and in return, your kids get to gorge on KitKats and day-glow jawbreakers.

Noah is full of animal crackers

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on October 26, 2006

Jewish Journal for kids. Animal Crackers and Halloween.

Hey Kids!

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on November 10, 2005

"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," introduces a slew of new words and concepts. Quiz your parents, grandparents and older siblings and see if they know what is true and what is false. Are they as smart as Harry's gal pal Hermione Granger or as clueless as Harry's cousin, Dudley Dursley?

Hey Kids!

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on October 27, 2005

Kids and Teens

Yeladim

By Abby Gilad
Published on October 28, 2004

Yeladim

Trick or Treat?

By Don Rutberg
Published on October 30, 2003

I asked my long-time friend, "Are you a strict father?" "Not really," he said, "but I wouldn't let my daughter out for Halloween."

For the Kids

By Abby Gilad
Published on October 30, 2003

For The Kids

ADL: December Dilemma

By Beverly Gray
Published on December 16, 1999

'Tis the season when children in public schools face the December Dilemma. As part of a classroom lesson, Jewish youngsters may be given Christmas trees to color. During holiday music programs, they may find themselves acting in a nativity scene or singing "Silent Night." Santa Claus may show up on campus, passing out candy canes and asking them what they want for Christmas.

The October Dilemma

By Curt Schleier
Published on October 28, 1999

For many Jewish parents, who associate the holiday with demons, death and wickedness, as well as with Christianity, Halloween is problematic.

Halloween Lessons

By Jolie Greiff
Published on October 29, 1998

Halloween celebrations and trick-or-treating: just clean fun or forbidden anti-Jewish activities? Like most issues in the Jewish community, it depends on who you ask. And not surprisingly, a Jewish school's stand on Halloween observance may not be shared by the students or their parents.

It’s a Little Tricky

By Risa Munitz
Published on October 23, 1997

Once again we are faced with the annual dilemma of what to doabout Halloween. Should we let the kids "trick or treat" or not? Weknow that Halloween is not a Jewish holiday; that is not the problem.We celebrate Thanksgiving and Presidents Day, both American holidayswhich reflect good values. Halloween, on the other hand, does notreflect a value system that we would like to pass on to our children.It focuses on taking, greed and violence, not to mention theconsequences, a nasty trick, played on those who refuse to give.