Volunteer Day at the Virginia City Jewish Cemetery
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 04/19/2018 - 9:04pm
Event Date:
May 6, 2018 (All day) Join the Chabad at Lake Tahoe for the 4th annual trip to Virginia City Jewish Cemetery for the purpose of trimming the vegetation and stabilizing the graves. Help us with this great mitzvah of honoring the deceased.
We are meeting at the parking lot at the end of town 364 C St, Virginia City, Nevada at 9:30am and will continue from there to the cemetery.
During the height of the Comstock, this cemetery served the burial needs for Virginia City’s thriving Jewish community. The cemetery was established in 1863. As the Comstock mining activity ebbed in the late 1880s, Virginia City’s population began to shrink. As a result, the cemeteries, including the Hebrew cemetery, fell into disrepair and over the next 100 years desert vegetation reclaimed the landscape. Unfortunately, the cemetery has been the subject of anti-Semitic vandalism on several occasions during the last one hundred years. Headstones have been destroyed or defaced and the cemetery generally desecrated.
Dress in work clothes. We will supply rakes and shovels, but if you have extra rakes, gas lawn mower, weed whacker or heavy duty gardening tools bring them along!
Light lunch and cold drinks will be provided.
For more information and to RSVP visit JewishTahoe.com/Events or contact 530-314-7677.