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Chabad at Lake Tahoe

Chabad House

Chabad provides a diverse network of social, educational, and religious programming to help improve meaningful and joyful life experiences for the Lake Tahoe Jewish community.

Rabbi Mordechai Richler has been in South Lake Tahoe for about a week, but he is already making headway on South Lake Tahoe’s newest Jewish cultural organization.

Members of Chabad Jewish Center are working to connect with as many people as possible by hosting ceremonies, groups and classes out the rabbi’s home. The members of the center look to unify people in the community through traditional education.

Richler grew up in Long Beach where he attended a Hebrew academy in the area. He studied in Brunoy, France, and then he moved on to a rabbinical college in Montreal. After that, he studied in New York City for a year, where he met his wife, Shaina.

“The way it works is they (the rabbinical schools) send you out to different places around the world,” Richler said, adding he worked in small towns in Ukraine for a year to help people learn more about their Jewish heritage and culture. Richler said there are still tens of thousands of Jewish people living in those rural areas.

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Schedule

Minyan Shabbat at Chabad 10am?
10:00am-12:30pm Followed by a Kiddush at Chabad

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Programs

Mikvah Fund
Kiddush Sponsorship
Synagogue
Mezuzah Bank
Jewish Learning Library
Social Services
Judaica Corner
LA Kosher Food Delivery
Hospital Visitations
Shabbat Hospitality Kit
Youth Programs
Adult Education
Sukkos 2020
Chanukah at the Ski Run Marina
Chanukah Night #1
Chanukah Kids Club

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People

Rabbi Mordechai RichlerCo-director
Mrs. Shaina RichlerCo-director

What they offer

Chabad at Lake Tahoe is a Chabad house in Stateline, led by Rabbi Mordechai Richler.

There is a synagogue on the premises. Visitors are welcomed for Shabbat and holiday meals. Kosher meals are available on a meal plan. A kosher store is run here. They kosher kitchens for the community.

Classes run regularly, one-to-one study can be arranged, courses from the Jewish Learning Institute are taught and public lectures are held.

For children there is a preschool, after-school programmes, a children's club and a mother-and-child group.

Older children and young adults have a teen club, bar and bat mitzvah instruction, a bar mitzvah club and a bat mitzvah club.

They officiate at weddings and funerals. Couples are prepared for marriage.

The center visits patients in hospital, visits Jewish prisoners, looks after the elderly, distributes food packages and provides humanitarian aid.

Mezuzos and tefillin can be checked here.