Jewish culture news worldwide: The rules for a Jewish Halloween; tweeting the Torah; Mandy Patinkin revisits Inigo Montoya.
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Happy Halloween! Sure, Halloween isn't a Jewish holiday, and there is much ado about whether or not it's kosher for Jewish people to celebrate, but blog Jewbellish came up with its own tongue-in-cheek halachot– religious laws – for trick or treaters. For example, trick or treating is only allowed after sunset, and immodest costumes are only for "at home with one's husband." The site also created this image, which went viral with over 100,000 views in a day:Meanwhile, Tablet has some Jewish feminist Halloween costume ideas 6 Degrees No Bacon has Jewish celebrity costumes and if you're looking for a playlist, The Orlando Sentinel listed the top 10 Jewish Halloween songs. Here's "Creatures of the Night," by KISS, from that list:For a project that is slightly more kosher than Halloween, check out "Unscrolled," a book in which 54 Jewish writers and artists – from "Lost" creator Damon Lindelhof to SNL alum Michaela Watkins - interpret the Torah in their own, unique way. There are interesting and interactive blog posts for every week's Torah portion and tweets about them using #Torahin140.Mandy Patinkin is more popular than ever, thanks to his role as Saul on "Homeland," but he will always be Inigo Montoya to fans of The Princess Bride. This week, Patinkin told CBS that his favorite line from the classic 80s film is not the famous "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die," but "I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it’s over I do not know what to do with the rest of my life.”
