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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Halloween
Message-ID: <418@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 18:34:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  6 18:34:52 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 7-Nov-84 10:58:00 EST
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Reply-To: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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In article <744@pyuxhh.UUCP> dxp@pyuxhh.UUCP (D Peak) writes:
||           However, as most of us are adults (or close to it) should 
|| a jewish family respond to neighbourhood kids "trick or treat" visits
|| by handing out treats or not (if one lived in a predominantly jewish
|| neighbourhood the question would not arise).

Wrong. We live in a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood, but the
question does arise. You'd have to live in a predominantly Orthodox
neighbourhood (perhaps Boro Park or Crown Heights) for it not to arise.

This year I decided that I didn't feel like having a bunch of
kids demand candy from me. If I knew who they were, I'd be quite
happy to tell them I'd noted their request and would deliver the
candy on Purim as Mishloach Manos. But with the disguises you
never know who the kids are at your door.

What did I do? I turned off the lights, ignored the doorbell and
read netnews in the dark.

Incidentally, the rabbi of our shul, Rav David Schochet, spoke
about it last Shabbos (a few days late:-). He pointed out that
one should not give food to another Jew without making sure that
other person will say a brocha over the food. He also made reference
to the origins of Halowe'en in avodah zarah, and noted it should
be avoided for that reason.

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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