Comments (0)Halloween Jews
October 23, 2009Neil Rubin
Editor
The New York Times recently asked the pressing question: What’s the most popular Halloween mask this year?
The surprising answer: Bernie “Give Me Your Mega-Bucks” Madoff is beating Michael Jackson and Super Mario Brothers for the honor. The wily editors at the JTA Wire Service, their “Jewdar” guns ever at the ready, note this makes the Money Launderer of Manhattan this year’s most famous Jew for the upcoming All Hallow’s Eve/All Saint’s Eve.
By last week alone, 15,000 Bernie masks had been purchased (hopefully not with Bernie’s credit card).
But moms and dads, you might not want your offspring bouncing out of the house with this mug; they’re opening themselves up to sequestered anger simmering like a bubbie whom you haven’t called in a week.
One tremors at how certain members of the human species might react to a fun-loving urchin, face hidden behind a rubber Bernie, popping into their peephole. Say it’s a veteran member of Hadassah, whose agency lost many tens of millions of dollars with the Butcher of Bookkeeping. How would Aunt Selma react to said kid?
Oh the possibilities.
By the way, Halloween is the last of the fall Jewish holidays, right? (P.S. That might not be true, but seek semi-competent rabbinic advice for confirmation.)