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A children's "Beetlejuice" costume formerly listed on the Zara website which was compared to prison garb worn by inmates in Nazi concentration camps. (Zara)
October 2, 2026, 4:43 am
Zara pulls Halloween costume likened to uniform for inmates at concentration camps
Outfit resembling garb worn by ‘Beetlejuice’ removed after raising eyebrows online; Claims Conference head says repeated incidents by firm show need for Holocaust education
By Gabe Kahn
South Korea's National Police Agency Commissioner Yoon Hee-keun (C) bows during a press conference on the deadly Halloween crowd surge, at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in Seoul on November 1, 2022. (YONHAP / AFP)
November 1, 2022, 11:15 am
Response to crowd surge at Seoul Halloween party was ‘insufficient,’ police admit
At least 156 mostly young people were killed in crush late Saturday at the first post-pandemic Halloween party in popular Itaewon nightlife district
By Cat Barton and Sunghee Hwang
South Korean police officers stand guard at the scene of a deadly crowd crush in Seoul, South Korea, October 30, 2022.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
October 30, 2022, 3:13 pm
South Korea in shock, grief after 153 die in ‘hell-like’ Halloween crowd surge
Week of mourning declared across country after accident that occurred as 100,000 gathered in Seoul for annual outdoor festival
By KIM TONG-HYUNG and Hyung-Jin Kim
Gravestone engraved in Hebrew at the Jewish cemetery in Buchach, western Ukraine. (Public domain)
October 28, 2020, 3:11 pm
LISTEN: Medieval Jewish ghost stories, heaven, hell, and a lot of punishment
Dr. Susan Weissman delves into the spooky side of a 13th-century moralistic Jewish text, Sefer Hasidim, written by a German sect notorious for taking repentance extremely seriously
By ToI Staff
Screen capture of Creekside Elementary School in Kaysville, Utah. (Google Maps)
November 3, 2019, 11:30 pm
Utah school principal, teacher placed on leave after student dresses as Hitler
Davis District education authorities apologize for incident at Creekside Elementary; United Jewish Federation says dressing a child as Nazi leader is ‘is intolerably offensive’
By JTA
A Florida woman who says she is Jewish has angered neighbors and received death threats over a holiday display in her yard that calls to mind Auschwitz; October 30, 2018 (Screencapture/ WFLA News Channel 8)
November 5, 2018, 2:45 am
Florida woman sets up Auschwitz-themed yard display, infuriates neighbors
Woman, who says she is Jewish, claims she put up the Halloween decorations after fighting with the Home Owners Association over landscaping
By JTA
Illustrative: Members of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the US, hold a swastika burning after a rally on April 21, 2018, in Draketown, Georgia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
October 31, 2018, 3:33 am
Halloween haunted house holds ‘Swastika Saturday’ on day of Pittsburgh attack
Owner of the Haunted Hoochie in Pataskala in Ohio apologizes, says ‘we screwed up big time,’ donates $50,000 to synagogue
By JTA
A reddit post showing a photo of Bryant Goldbach at an October 25, 2018, Halloween trick-or-treating event dressed as an SS officer. (Reddit/u/RainbowYaz)
October 27, 2018, 5:10 pm
Kentucky dad unhappy at treatment after dressing son, 5, as Hitler
In Facebook post, father says ‘we love history,’ expresses ‘displeasure of dealing with the fruits of the so-called Tolerant Left’
By Yaakov Schwartz
Holloweencostumes.com removed this Halloween costume of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank from its sites. (Screenshot from Holloweencostumes.com)
October 16, 2017, 9:48 pm
Halloween retailer pulls Anne Frank costume amid complaints
Website apologizes for depicting Holocaust diarist, explains that it also sells costumes for ‘school projects and plays’
By AP
Casey Pearlman, who is Jewish, and her friend Yasmin Idris, who is Muslim, dressed up as “Juslim” superheroes for Halloween 2016. (Twitter)
October 31, 2016, 5:23 pm
US teens join forces with Muslim-Jewish costume
California pals dress up for Halloween as ‘Juslim’ superhero team
By JTA
Illustrative: A bronze statue of the Satanic icon Baphomet, currently residing in a shed outside The Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts. (Courtesy)
October 26, 2016, 4:36 pm
In haunted Salem, a Jewish church founder preaches the art of ‘Satanic’ social change
At a former funeral home in a town inextricably linked to witchcraft, secular Jew Malcolm Jarry opens a new heaquarters for his Satanic Temple, a controversial movement with up to 50,000 members worldwide
By Matt Lebovic
Edmon J. Rodman
October 30, 2015, 6:58 am
Edmon J. Rodman
Kosher candy rings the bell on Halloween
Even if the holiday is treif, the treats are kosher (and Dr. Scab’s Monster Lab Chocolate Body Parts are dairy)
Found on eBay, a '1940s World War II Girls Period Anne Frank Fancy Dress Costume.' (courtesy)
October 29, 2015, 5:40 pm
‘Mom, can I be Anne Frank for Halloween?’
This year’s trick-or-treating brings us children dressing up as Holocaust-era figures, ranging from the Fuhrer to his most famous Jewish victim
By Matt Lebovic
Shaanan Scherer
October 29, 2015, 2:24 pm
Shaanan Scherer
The Halloween influence in our shuls
Who needs trick-or-treating when kids receive a big pile of candy every Saturday morning — and for what?
Walmart's Israeli Soldier Costume for Kids
October 28, 2015, 4:27 am
Walmart pulls IDF, ‘Sheikh Fagin’ costumes
After online outcry over Halloween merchandise, retailer withdraws sale of Israeli soldier, hooked nose items
By JTA and ToI Staff
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