Eric Berger

As the nation’s attention was riveted on reports of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., Rabbi Hershy Bronstein read a report from the local sheriff’s office that a suspect had been arrested at a McDonald’s restaurant just across the stre...

The high temperature during Super Bowl Sunday is expected to be a frigid 11 degrees, but Chabad plans to warm up Jewish fans who will be on hand for the game. Rabbi Sholom Brook, co-director of Chabad Young Professionals Uptown Minneapolis, will host a ko...

The Jewish community on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, will gather this evening at 7 p.m. for inspiration and prayer for the safe return of two Torah scrolls stolen from the Chabad center. On Sunday morning, a member of the community entered the sanctuary an...

David Cohen, an investor and member of the Jewish community of Palm Beach, Fla., met Rabbi Nachman Zeev Schtroks about a decade ago. At that point, Cohen had been confined to a wheelchair for most of his life and no longer left the house much. Schtroks, w...

What do the funder of defibrillators at youth sports fields, the provider of tests for people with heart defects and a paramedic fighting the opioid epidemic have in common with a rabbi? They’ve all been declared the “Person of the Year” by the Herald new...

Digital artist Nitzan Bartov will demonstrate this Chanukah that augmented reality goes far beyond Pokémon GO, the location-based augmented reality game downloaded 750 million times that took smartphone users by storm in the summer of 2016. She explains t...

On Rosh Hashanah this year, Vicki O’Neill Haber stepped out of synagogue services in Denver because her 9-year-old son, Max, needed to take a break. Outside the sanctuary, she saw someone who looked familiar. A woman named Rachel had also left services be...

As many as 500 Miami-area residents and guests will gather at The Rok Family Shul-Chabad Downtown Jewish Center on Friday night for prayer services and a celebratory Shabbat dinner, marking the fact that El Al airlines has begun nonstop flight service to ...

A group of donors have agreed to match contributions to Chabad Lubavitch of Puerto Rico totaling $125,000 as part of a 30-hour campaign to help the Jewish center in its relief efforts following Hurricane Maria. Longtime Jewish philanthropists George and P...

Faced with a critical shortage of food, potable water and other urgently needed supplies, Chabad-Lubavitch of Puerto Rico has arranged for private planes to deliver essentials to the devastated island, where disaster relief efforts have faced significant ...