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Local Chabads respond to terrorism with outreach work, good deeds

Mendel Gancz, 19 months, reaches for a taste of just-made challah as his mother, Devorah, and other women from Chabad of Suffern bake the bread as part of a memorial for Rivka Holtzberg, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who was killed in the terrorist attacks last week in Mumbai, India. Kathy Gardner/The Journal News

When asked how they would respond to the killing of a Chabad rabbi and his wife in a Mumbai terrorist attack, local Chabad rabbis almost uniformly invoked the same theme: light against darkness. More

Local Chabads seek ways to remember a Chabad couple killed in Mumbai attacks

As Chabad houses around the world mourned the deaths of a rabbi and his wife in Mumbai terrorist attacks, Chabads in the Lower Hudson Valley region planned their own ways of remembering the couple. More

Tagaste Monastery priest dies at 97

Francisco Moriones

SUFFERN - The Rev. Francisco Moriones, a spry, engaging man who was four months away from marking his 75th year in the priesthood, has died. More

Pastor's visit to Africa cut short by illness

The Rev. Christian Santiago, pastor of the Rock of Salvation Church in Sleepy Hollow, recounts his experience after becoming gravely ill in South Africa. The 67-year-old Pentecostal preacher spent five months nearly paralyzed, halfway around the world from his church, while the South African community he had sought to help took care of him and his family. Ricky Flores/The Journal News

On the first day of his mission for the poor in South Africa, the Rev. Christian Santiago put his feet on the floor and could not get out of bed. His head wobbled and fell forward. His muscles would not respond. More

Small Hillburn church needs help to provide holiday aid

Albertine Phipps of Spring Valley, center, prays last Sunday with the congregation at the Lighthouse Worship Center of Hillburn. The church is starting a project to spread cheer to needy families in Hillburn and the surrounding area this holiday season. A series of events in December, including a night of caroling and reading and gift-giving, particularly for seniors, is planned. Church members are looking for donations to help. Kathy Gardner/The Journal News

HILLBURN - A small village church has taken on a large job for the holidays. More

N.J. township to stop plowing church, civil group lots

HANOVER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - Churches and civil groups in Hanover Township will have to hire someone to plow snow from their parking lots because the town will no longer do it. More



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Members of Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation packaging food items to be handed out to the local Hispanic community on Thanksgiving Day. An effort that was put to gether by 13 year old Jack Foster and Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation.  Photo courtesy of <a href="http://jukebox.lohud.com/photos/index.php?photog=Ashley+Jacob&source=citj">Ashley Jacob</a>.<br /> David Leibowitz and his son Aaron in the packaging food and home goods on Thanksgiving morning as part of a food drive rub by Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation.  Photo courtesy of <a href="http://jukebox.lohud.com/photos/index.php?photog=Ashley+Jacob&source=citj">Ashley Jacob</a>.<br /> Jack Foster and his family outside the tent in the Neighbors Link parking lot that was the base of operations for the packaging and distribution of food to the local Hispanic community run by Mount Kisco Hebrew Congregation.   Photo courtesy of <a href="http://jukebox.lohud.com/photos/index.php?photog=Ashley+Jacob&source=citj">Ashley Jacob</a>.<br /> The word is out - Thanksgiving is over!  21 wild turkeys visit the backyard of Mike and Kim Pelino in Chappaqua, New York Photo courtesy of <a href="http://jukebox.lohud.com/photos/index.php?photog=Kim+Pelino&source=citj">Kim Pelino</a>.<br /> Daisy Troop 2925 of Mount Kisco collects food for the local food pantry for Thanksgiving outside Shoprite of Bedford Hills.  All girls are in Kindergarten and weathered the freezing weather to collect over 25 bags worth of food for the needy. Photo courtesy of <a href="http://jukebox.lohud.com/photos/index.php?photog=Christine+Tarallo&source=citj">Christine Tarallo</a>.<br />

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