With thousands of people crammed into the tiny Canadian resort of Whistler, British Columbia, three young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students have had their hands full providing kosher food, prayer services and Torah classes to Jewish visitors and locals.

While events of the 2010 Winter Games took place around town, Rabbis Moshe Frank, Berry Spitezki and Schneur Wineberg welcomed guests for a Friday night Shabbat meal at one of the two Pan Pacific hotels in Windsor. During the weekdays, they’ve operated from a donated home which they converted into a temporary Chabad House.

“It was beautiful to see a Shabbat dinner here,” said Moshe Blank, a restaurant owner in Whistler, home to some 60 Jewish families. “You guys should come every week.”


Rabbi Berry Spitezki, a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical student who set up a temporary Chabad House in Whistler, Canada, chats with a Peruvian athletic official.


Rabbis Schneur Wineberg, second from left, and Berry Spitezki met up with the Tresters and Sterns, Jewish families from Vancouver visiting Whistler.


While events of the 2010 Winter Games took place around the tiny resort town, Rabbis Moshe Frank, Berry Spitezki and Schneur Wineberg were hard at work preparing a room at one of the two Pan Pacific hotels for Shabbat guests.


A Jewish visitor in Whistler dons black prayer boxes known as tefillin and prays from text displayed on his iPhone.


Moshe Blank, right, a Jewish restaurant owner in Whistler took part in Shabbat observances at the hotel.