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The Cinema Arts Centre will host a three-day Jewish film festival featuring documentaries, films, and a look at Jewish culture. The festival will run from April 14-April 16. Films are curated by David Schwartz, manager of theatrical programming at Netflix. Public tickets are $15 per Read More …
The Huntington Town Board on Friday condemned an anti-Semitic flyer that was delivered to a Huntington woman earllier this week. The flyer, from a group called the Goyim Defense League, mixed political slogans with anti-Semitic tropes, labeling photos of members of President Biden’s Cabiniet with Read More …
Huntington Assembly of God will host a Three Kings Day celebration on Thursday, sponsored by Housing Help Inc. The event will last from 4 to 6 p.m. Three Kings Day, or the Epiphany, is celebrated as by Christians as the day the three wise men Read More …
During the holidays, generosity flows through Huntington, in ways big and small. Business leaders write donation checks, non-profits distribute toys, elected officials collect and distribute winter coats, and grassroots groups feed the hungry. And then there’s piano-playing Mariano Schwartz, who, with the dollars from his Read More …
Melville Chabad is hosting a Chanukah Wonderland Dec. 18 at Walt Whitman Shops. The entire family is invited to enjoy the camaraderie and celebrate the holiday of Chanukah in style with family and community at this celebration. Included in the event are dreidel painting, doughnut Read More …
Scores of parents lined up at Huntington Assembly of God Tuesday to pick up diapers, clothing and toys for their children. The Baby Blessings program is run by Helping Hand Rescue Mission at the church every third Tuesday of the month. Volunteers assisted mothers who Read More …
The Huntington Town Board voted this week to rename a street in Melville for a Hindu religious leader. Deshon Drive will be known as HH Pramukh Swami Drive /Deshon Drive. The renaming is in honor of the centennial birth anniversary of Pramukh Swami, who was Read More …
Joseph Garafolo has become senior pastor at Huntington Baptist Church, the 25th pastor in the church’s history. He preached his first sermon at the church on Sunday. “We are delighted that Pastor Joe has accepted the call to be the next pastor of our church,” Read More …
About 200 people rallied Sunday night in Huntington against the Supreme Court decision to overturn the Roe v. Wade abortion ruling. Local Jewish and Protestant leaders addressed the crowd to emphasize that some faiths have a different view of when life begins than some courts Read More …
St. Anthony’s High School had a mass and veneration of a relic of Carlos Acutis on Monday. Archbishop Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino, bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino and of Foligno, Italy led the service for Acutis, who died from leukemia at 15 in 2006. The Italian Read More …