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| Halloween: Tis Better To Give? | |
 by AmyGuth, October 31, 2007
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Halloweeneleh: Whether you do it or not, maybe there's a nice little message in the way it gets done anymore. Or maybe just some horribly misguided costumes.There's a lot of talk about whether or not we, as Jews, should be celebrating Halloween. There's the we-shouldn't-celebrate-nonJewish-holidays camp and the it-has-Christian-and/or-Pagan-roots camp and the who-cares-it's-fun-it's-not-hurting-anything-to-dress-up camp. I can understand these different schools of thought, and maybe a few sub-headings within each, and I can understand the impetus behind each.
But, whatever you do or do not do for Halloween, this article makes a nice point about making the focus of the holiday, whether you celebrate it or not, on giving. Though it could be a hard sell, children could learn about the joy of sharing and giving by handing out candy at home, and if you do not observe Halloween, maybe passing out candy to trick or treaters puts a welcome mat out for inter-community interaction. Could be.
Uh, but whatever your take on Halloween might be, Does anyone else think this is more than a little bit fucked up? This? What about this? Or these? Does that last group even make sense?
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Amy Guth is the author of Three Fallen Women, which she is perpetually schlepping around to pimp out. Between travels, she's hard at work on her next novels and is the woman with the pink-stripey hair usually starting up the horah at More... |
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Tamar Fox
wow
Some of those costumes are incredibly fucked up, but I kind of love the Rebekah costume. We have no idea what she looked like, so the thing's covered with camels. Sweet.
Dan Garwood
Nu?
"Includes curls ONLY, beard NOT included"
At least the packaging on that one suggests that the company making it intends it to be used for theatrical productions. The full rabbi costume bothers me, though.
Anonymous
you could dress up as the
you could dress up as the pope or a priest and nobody would complain. Rabbis should be fair game too. It's a dress-up holiday for goodness sake!
AmberPasternak
last night marked my
last night marked my husband's first official participation in Halloween activities. He was raised in Orthodox communities, so it just wasn't done. We're new to our neighborhood and passing out candy gave us a chance to meet some more neighbors. It also put us in the running for a potential lawsuit. In a fit of passion for candy (greed? gluttony?), a boy of about 9 or 10 years came running toward our house and tripped on our uneven sidewalk. He fell onto the driveway and just stayed there. After we walked to where he was lying and gave him and his brother a handful of candy, his dad picked him and carried him to the next house. Later in the night we watched a kid trip over his own feet in the grass. His dad's response was "get off the ground."
As far as discernible costumes, we had mostly angels, ninjas, princesses, and spiderman.
Anonymous
"A little bit fucked up"
... no more so than the half-dozen or so "pregnant nun" costumes I saw in my neighborhood last night (most worn by bio-women, but one worn by a bio-male). Plus, if there were no "rabbi" costumes, what would queer Jewish women and bois wear on Purim?
Anonymous
I was looking for a birthday
I was looking for a birthday card in one of those mall stores that sell giftwrap, novelties and buckets of useless junk that I guess someone must buy. I was acting as an agent for my then-5-yr-old daughter, who I was taking to a birthday party-you know, the one my wife had told me about 45 times we needed a card for; the one I hadn't gotten a card for; the one that started 15 min. ago.
JewcyCraig
Hahahah
katie
A Shiksa Goyum Playing Slutty Jewess Homemaker?!
Adult Hanukkah Apron: is there a matching panty/undie ensemblay and I do mean ensemblay to go with it?!
Halloween is one of my ma's favorite holidays. So, yeah, I'm a huge weenqueen. I respect that some of our peeps aren't so into it. I liked what the Rabbi had to say about bridging the spiritual gap and participating by passing out candy.
Semi-phobic of liability, I limit mine by not passing out candy. Though, if I lived in a house versus an apartment, I'd probably want buckets and buckets of chocky chach to give out. Hmmm...
AmyGuth
Link?
Kateleh, the link is jacked. Hook it up again?
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