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Young NJ Baseball Player Battling Cancer Gets Holiday Surprise From 'Phillies' (VIDEO) Young NJ Baseball Player Battling Cancer Gets Holiday Surprise From 'Phillies' (VIDEO)
Young NJ Baseball Player Battling Cancer Gets Holiday Surprise From 'Phillies' (Video) A young New Jersey baseball player battling cancer got a one-of-a-kind surprise from the Philadelphia Phillies this week. Marlton baseball player and major Phillies fan Toby Mizrachi, 10, was recently diagnosed with B cell Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and started chemotherapy treatment at the CHOP over Hanukkah. Toby’s favorite team worked alongside the Marlton community to arrange a pep rally parade with his travel team, friends and fifth-grade classmates on Thursday. We recently learned that one of our biggest fans, Toby Mizrachi, is undergoing cancer treatment during what should be... Po…

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by Valerie Musson
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An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague: How COVID-19 Denied Heartbroken Family A Proper Goodbye An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague: How COVID-19 Denied Heartbroken Family A Proper Goodbye
An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague: How Covid-19 Denied Heartbroken Family A Proper Goodbye Coronavirus didn't exist when Eileen Callaghan of Bergenfield was diagnosed  with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma last fall. It was here in full force, though, when her daughters recently had to leave the 88-year-old Irish family matriarch at the ER door. One of them, Bridget Callaghan-Kane, wrote about her family's experience with their mom's subsequent death "and the world we find ourselves living in at this time in history." An Irish Wake During A Modern Plague Anyone with a drop of Irish blood knows what an Irish wake is, the going-away party that was thrown for an Irish man or woman…

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by Bridget Callaghan-Kane