Chabad of Southern Nevada is a major outpost of the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch organization which promotes Jewish education and outreach all across the globe. Established in 1990 in Rabbi Shea & Dina Harlig's living room, Chabad of Southern Nevada has since emerged as a dynamic force for Jewish life – with five thriving centers and 9 Rabbis and Rebbetzins spanning the greater Las Vegas Valley.

Headquartered in Las Vegas, Chabad’s beautiful central campus includes a Day School for grades K-8, Preschool, Hebrew school, summer day camp, synagogue, adult education center and state-of-the-art mikvah. This location also serves as the hub for county-wide outreach activities including holiday festivals, emergency food and shelter distributions, crisis counseling, chaplaincy programs, kosher food supervision and facilitation and “mitzvah campaigns”. With demand and participation burgeoning in all of these programs, plans are in the works for a major capital expansion of the Desert Torah Academy Day School and Torah Tots Preschool into a $12 million mega Jewish community campus.

Chabad’s four satellite centers are likewise growing in leaps and bounds... In April of 2006, Chabad of Summerlin/Desert Shores opened a magnificent 15,000 square foot center – complete with a synagogue, mikvah and educational center. Chabad of Green Valley, a full service Jewish outreach center, is likewise moving forward on plans to build a new multipurpose facility on its recently-acquired 4-acre parcel of land on Eastern and the 215. Chabad’s Hebrew center is responding to its rapid exponential growth by taking steps to develop the Beit Rambam Synagogue and Sefardic Outreach Center on a 2.5-acre site at Vegas Drive and Durango. The Chabad Student Services Center at UNLV has become a vital center of Jewish activity for the some 200 Jewish students on campus.

From the individual to the communal; from the material to the spiritual; for young and old alike; Chabad of Southern Nevada, an Oasis in the Desert, is an all-inclusive, full-service, multifaceted center of Jewish life for the greater desert community – for miles around.

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