halloween Archives – Jewish Journal

Halloween: It’s More Jewish Than You Think

Erin Ben-Moche and Esther D. Kustanowitz October 31, 2019

Shabbat on Halloween: Horror of horrors or wonder of wonders?

Jewish Journal October 28, 2014

With a borscht-curdling geshrei, Halloween this year falls on Shabbat. On a Friday night, trick-or-treaters, even Jewish ones, will be knocking

My last Halloween

Gina Nahai October 30, 2013

These days it creeps up on me like an ache — the occasional pumpkin in a front yard, the synthetic cobwebs in trees, the subtle turn in the weather and, yes, there’s that feeling in the pit of my stomach, the hollowness of those dreams in which you’re lost in a white tunnel, with nowhere to go but forward, though you know that every step will take you farther away from home.