An online Halloween costume retailer has pulled an Anne Frank costume after an onslaught of criticism on social media. HalloweenCostumes.com is no longer showing its “Anne Frank costume for girls” on its European and American sites. In the product’s description, the company described Frank as a hero, writing that “we can always learn from the…
New York Magazine’s The Cut, which is normally all kinds of wonderful, made a rare misstep last week with a trollish piece called “Pets Are Not Children, So Stop Calling Them That.” Oddly enough, the story – which was, by the way, a stroke of clickbait brilliance* – wasn’t a timely Halloween call to maybe…
Look there — might that be a poltergeist up on the bimah? Or a goblin dangling from the ceiling of the beit ha-knesset? In the spirit of the season, here are five tales of synagogues that may or may not be haunted. Don’t say you weren’t warned. The Ari Synagogue Following earthquakes, The Ari Synagogue in Safed,…
Because Halloween, as All Hallows’ Eve, has its roots in pagan mythology and the Christian calendar, Jews traditionally don’t celebrate it. But increasingly people (including Jews) around the world are celebrating American Halloween and that’s a terrible mistake. Maybe I am aging into a curmudgeon — certainly young children and LGBT communities have righteous fun…
Bernie Sanders took a break from the campaign trail this weekend to go trick or treating. The Democratic candidate was walking alongside three of his grandchildren in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Per ABC News: “Sunnee, 12, was dressed as the White Witch from “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” Ryleigh, 10, wore a blue and…
After uproar in the comments section, Walmart.com seems to have pulled its controversial Israeli soldier costume,just in time for Halloween. It might not be the best time ever to be promoting dressing up like an IDF soldier, but the makers of offensive Halloween costumes have never been particularly concerned with timing or taste. In case…
In her latest column for Vanity Fair, Monica Lewinsky writes about . “Thankfully, I have never gone to a Halloween party where I’ve bumped up against, well, myself,” she writes. “I did, however, get an idea of what that might be like when, several years ago, I went to see the movie Made of Honor,…
My mother and I arrived in Montreal, Canada in September 1941 following a death-defying escape that took us from bombed-out German-occupied Warsaw in the winter of 1940 to surviving a Nazi firing squad, to Lithuania’s Vilno (which in June 1940 was occupied by the Soviets). Then a 12-14-day Trans-Siberian train ride to Vladivostok and the…
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