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Switzerland · community hub: Interlaken West / Höheweg · airport ZRH, about 150 min by car. Everything below was checked against the sources on each listing in November 2026; confirm times with the shul before you rely on them.
Not found online as of Nov 2026 (checked Wikipedia's list of eruvin on 1 Nov 2026, which shows only Zürich for Switzerland, plus Google and Chabad Switzerland): no eruv is known in Interlaken, Grindelwald, Wengen or Lauterbrunnen, and I found no resident Jewish community that would keep one; ask Chabad of Central Switzerland (Lucerne) on +41 41 361 17 70. Treat Shabbat as no-carry (no keys, wallets or tickets outside); car-free Wengen is not an eruv.
Booking.com Q&A (Nov 2026): regular metal room key, 3 elevators, hotel restaurant, no kettle in rooms (borrow at reception). One Sep 2026 Tripadvisor reviewer says the elevators 'work in an unusual manner' (not a Shabbat statement). No Shabbat elevator or kosher breakfast stated: ask. About 0.5 km from Interlaken West and 1.1 km from Interlaken Ost (straight line from coordinates). I found no shul in Interlaken (not found online as of Nov 2026); the nearest year-round ones are Bern and Lucerne, and Chabad Switzerland lists summer-only minyanim in Adelboden and Lenk. · +41 33 828 66 66
Booking.com Q&A (Nov 2026): regular metal room key, 2 elevators, kettle and/or coffee machine in rooms, restaurant with special-diet options (not stated kosher); Booking's facility list omits an elevator, so confirm. Google reviewers: older building, no air conditioning (fans supplied). About 1.3 km from Interlaken West and 0.4 km from Interlaken Ost (straight line from coordinates). · +41 33 826 70 07
Booking.com Q&A (Nov 2026): regular metal room key, 2 elevators, tea-making facilities in rooms, no restaurant (breakfast only). No Shabbat elevator or kosher breakfast stated. About 1.0 km from Interlaken West and 0.6 km from Interlaken Ost (straight line from coordinates). · +41 33 827 50 50
Booking.com Q&A (Nov 2026): regular metal room key, 2 elevators, no kitchenette in rooms. A Google reviewer says only one elevator serves the rooms, and another found used drinks in the room fridge, so check on arrival. Google: family rooms with river-view balconies. About 0.2 km from Interlaken West and 1.6 km from Interlaken Ost (straight line from coordinates). · +41 33 823 10 35
Booking.com Q&A (Nov 2026): regular metal key, every unit has a kitchen with stove, fridge and microwave; only some units have lift access, many are upstairs (ask for a ground-floor or lift unit before booking). A Google reviewer describes self check-in with key codes for the main door and bedroom, so confirm which applies. Google reviewers: about 10 m from Interlaken West, Migros opposite, big shared kitchen, 5-person apartment with 2 bedrooms. · +41 79 890 00 60
Booking.com Q&A (Nov 2026): electronic key card (ask reception to open the door or for a manual key), 2 elevators, kettle in rooms, restaurant with Swiss and vegetarian dishes. No Shabbat elevator or kosher breakfast stated. About 0.2 km from Interlaken West and 1.4 km from Interlaken Ost (straight line from coordinates). TripAdvisor (Nov 2026): rooms are on the top three floors, reached by lift or stairs; no review there mentions a key or Shabbat. · +41 33 826 03 30
Booking.com Q&A (Nov 2026): electronic key card, ground-floor apartment (no stairs) in a building with an elevator, kitchenette with stove, fridge, microwave and kettle. No Shabbat arrangements stated. About 0.5 km from Interlaken West and 1.1 km from Interlaken Ost (straight line from coordinates).
switzerlanding.com's kosher-hotel page: 'Mechanical keys are provided for Shabbat observers', apartments with fridge, microwave and kettle, under 10 min from the Lucerne synagogue and Chabad. Google reviewers: kitchen apartments, an elevator to the 3rd floor (one reviewer found it broken), entrance from the river-side basement avoids cobbled streets. This is Lucerne, about 2 h by train from Interlaken: use it only if you base in Lucerne. · +41 41 311 29 29
Minyan: Times: call. Not published: chabadluzern.com (read 2 Nov 2026) has only candle-lighting, 'Family Shul' and general Shabbat links with no local times; it serves Lucerne, Zug and Central Switzerland. Google reviewers describe a Friday-night dinner with service and a welcoming Shabbos day, and a Wanderlog page advises telling Chabad in advance of your visit. Nearest Chabad to the Oberland, about 2 h by train from Interlaken, so only for a Shabbat spent in Lucerne.
Contact: +41 41 361 17 70 · Info@chabadluzern.com (per SIG) · Rabbi Chaim Drukman and Mrs Rivky Drukman · chabadluzern.com
Minyan: Times: call. One Google reviewer of the community house says 'there are minyanim'; no schedule found anywhere (jgluzern.ch now serves an unrelated shop page, 2 Nov 2026). Google lists the synagogue building as open Mon-Thu 08:00-21:00, Fri 08:00-17:00, Sat 10:00-21:00, Sun 08:00-21:00: these are building hours, not service times. About 2 h by train from Interlaken.
Contact: +41 79 432 78 81 (Google listing) · +41 41 240 64 00 · info@jgluzern.ch (both per SIG; the jgluzern.ch web address no longer shows the community site, so phone first)
Minyan: Fri Kabbalat Shabbat 18:00 (winter time) or 18:45 (summer time); Shabbat Shacharit 9:15 (community's own page, read 2 Nov 2026); weekday times not published. Visitors must register in advance with the community office (Mon-Thu 09:00-11:00) and leave a copy of official ID; the synagogue is not open to the public, and Google reviewers say the same. About 1 h by train from Interlaken.
Contact: +41 31 381 49 92 · info@jgb.ch · jgb.ch
Minyan: Times: call. Gateway option on the way from Zürich airport (about 2 h by train to Interlaken); Google reviewers describe Mincha and a Shabbos meal here. See the Zürich city entry for full shul times.
Contact: +41 44 201 07 70
Minyan: Times: call. Google reviewers mention 'lots of minyanim shachris' and a Shabbat stay; no times in the listing. Has a mikvah (see mikvaos).
Contact: See the Zürich city entry for phone and times
Minyan: Times: call. Listed under 'Summer Minyanim 2026' on Chabad Switzerland's weekly-updated list (read 2 Nov 2026), which says most minyanim run from after Tisha B'Av until Elul unless other dates are given; for Adelboden it gives no dates, venue or times. Seasonal only, so do not expect a winter minyan, and this is the 2026 list; I did not see a 2027 one on 2 Nov 2026. About 32 km (straight line, from coordinates) south-west of Interlaken, in a different valley. Pin is the village tourist office, not a synagogue.
Contact: J. Schneck +44 7594 837201 · julian@bridgeheadestates.co.uk (as printed on the Chabad Switzerland list) · Adelboden-Lenk-Kandersteg tourist office +41 33 533 04 77 (printed on the same list)
Minyan: Times: call. Chabad Switzerland's 'Summer Minyanim 2026' list (read 2 Nov 2026) shows Lenk for 29.07 to 10.08 only and says it needs 4 people to complete the minyan; no venue or times published. The 2026 dates have passed and I did not see 2027 dates on 2 Nov 2026. About 41 km (straight line, from coordinates) south-west of Interlaken. Pin is the village tourist office, not a synagogue.
Contact: N. Brandeis +41 78 892 03 96 (as printed on the Chabad Switzerland list) · Adelboden-Lenk-Kandersteg tourist office +41 33 533 04 77 (printed on the same list)
Not a kosher outlet: Interlaken is not on the SIG kosher-shop list. Use it for fresh produce, eggs, fish, wine and certified packaged goods only. Open Saturday 08:00-17:00 but unusable on Shabbat.
Hours: Mon-Thu 08:00-19:00, Fri 08:00-20:00, Sat 08:00-17:00, Sun closed (Google) · +41 33 826 43 88
SIG lists it (Obere Hauptgasse 19, Thun) for kosher food, wine and Israeli products; the nearest listed kosher shop to Interlaken (Thun is roughly 30 min by train). Google Places (2 Nov 2026) instead shows Oelzweig at Günzenenstrasse 6, 3612 Steffisburg (46.7660, 7.6275), tagged as a liquor store, same phone, no hours posted, so confirm which address is current. Hours, hechsher and Shabbat orders not published (oelzweig.ch refuses automated reading and a web search found nothing else): phone ahead.
Hours: — · +41 79 637 37 31 · info@oelzweig.ch · oelzweig.ch
SIG lists a kosher selection here (which floor and brands not stated). Handy stop if you travel Zürich-Bern-Interlaken.
Hours: Mon-Wed 09:00-19:00, Thu 09:00-20:00, Fri 09:00-20:00, Sat 09:00-17:00, Sun closed (Google usual hours) · +41 31 320 71 11 · loeb.ch
Village cheese dairy in the Thun district, about 9 km west of Thun (straight line from coordinates). The Bern community's list says it sells certified kosher hard cheese and you must ask for the kosher cheese by name because not the whole range is kosher; a Google reviewer also mentions kosher cheese. Not a meal provider. Friday close of 18:30 is after winter candle lighting, so shop earlier.
Hours: Mon, Tue, Thu 07:30-12:00 and 16:00-18:30; Wed closed; Fri 07:30-12:00 and 14:00-18:30; Sat 07:30-15:00; Sun closed (Google) · +41 33 356 12 82
Kosher supermarket; a Google reviewer calls it the 'best supermarket to stock up for Alps trips'. Open late Thursday. Friday hours change with the season, so confirm.
Hours: Mon-Wed 07:30-19:00, Thu 07:30-22:00, Fri 07:30-14:00, Sat closed, Sun 09:00-12:00 (Google) · +41 44 463 04 40 · info@koscher-city.ch
All-kosher shop with meat, fish, Israeli wines and snacks. Google shows Friday to 15:00 but one reviewer found it shut at 14:00 despite a 15:00 sign, so plan for 14:00.
Hours: Mon-Wed 08:00-19:00, Thu 08:00-20:00, Fri 07:30-15:00, Sat-Sun closed (Google) · +41 44 201 11 22 · info@leshuk.ch
Pareve and dairy baked goods, challah, pizza sticks and takeaway sandwiches; a Google reviewer says delivery is offered (areas not stated). No seating.
Hours: Mon-Thu 07:00-20:00, Fri 07:00-14:00, Sat closed, Sun 08:00-20:00 (Google) · +41 44 762 40 60 · maadan.ch
Kosher butcher for Shabbat meat to cook in an apartment. Closes early on Friday.
Hours: Mon 09:00-18:00, Tue-Thu 08:00-18:00, Fri 07:30-12:00, Sat-Sun closed (Google) · +41 44 454 10 00 · bestellung@koltuv.ch
Kosher caterer near Zürich airport. A Google reviewer says it supplied all the food, including Shabbat, for an Alps holiday. Its site (read 2 Nov 2026) publishes no delivery area, lead time, Shabbat packages or prices, so an Alps delivery is confirmed only by that one reviewer: request an offer by phone or email well ahead.
Hours: Mon-Thu 08:00-17:00, Fri 08:00-14:00, Sat closed, Sun 08:00-17:00 (Google) · +41 44 810 40 00 · events@lsk-catering.ch
SIG says Cordon-Rouge delivers meat and wine throughout Switzerland and lists Lehayim as an online kosher food and wine shop. Delivery terms are not published: ask whether it reaches Interlaken before Shabbat.
Hours: — · +41 78 690 01 22 (WhatsApp) · contact@lehayim.ch · lehayim.ch
Google reviewers describe a Friday-night dinner with service and Shabbos-day hospitality from Rabbi and Mrs Drukman. No price list or booking form is published and a Wanderlog page advises contacting Chabad in advance: phone ahead. Lucerne is about 2 h by train from Interlaken.
Hours: Shabbat meals: call · +41 41 361 17 70
SIG lists 'kosher meals (on request)' at the community hall. A Google reviewer calls the house's restaurant strictly kosher but used mainly for holiday events, and adds that units and apartments can be rented there at times (ask whether one is free). Confirm by phone.
Hours: — · +41 79 432 78 81 (Google listing)
Vegetarian Sri Lankan and Indian menu under rabbinate supervision; the Bern community's list gives lunch Tue-Fri 11:30-14:00. Google also shows evening opening, including Friday and Saturday from 18:00, which is still Shabbat in summer, so not usable on Shabbat then.
Hours: Tue-Fri 11:00-14:00 and 18:00-22:00, Sat 18:00-23:00, Sun-Mon closed (Google) · +41 31 380 51 06 · vanakam@haus-der-religionen.ch
Booking: Book through Agudas Achim Zürich; booking line is in the Zürich city entry. Google reviewer: 'Beautiful, clean Mikvah'. No mikvah found in the Oberland (not found online as of Nov 2026); ask Chabad Lucerne (+41 41 361 17 70) whether Lucerne or Bern can arrange immersion. chabadluzern.com (read 2 Nov 2026) links only a general mikvah article, and Google Places returns no Lucerne mikvah. A totallyjewishtravel page titled 'Mikvah Lucerne' (listing TE23388) exists but could not be opened on 2 Nov 2026, so a Lucerne mikvah is unconfirmed.
Seen in older guides, checked Nov 2026: Chabad of Interlaken / Chabad Swiss Alps / seasonal summer Chabad house: not found online as of Nov 2026 (checked Google Places, Chabad Switzerland's site and its Summer Minyanim 2026 list, chabadluzern.com, and searches for 'Chabad Interlaken 2026', 'koscher Interlaken', 'Kosher Grindelwald', 'Kosher Wengen', 'Jungfrau kosher hotel 2026' and Hebrew spellings); that list names only Adelboden and Lenk for the Oberland (see shuls). Not confirmed or denied by Chabad, so no Rabbi, dates or phone are listed; ask Chabad of Central Switzerland (Lucerne) on +41 41 361 17 70 · Kosher takeaway or restaurant in Interlaken ('Kosher Interlaken'): not found online as of Nov 2026; Google Places returns only halal, Lebanese and Syrian places and none claims a hechsher, and nothing is listed on SIG's restaurant and hotel page. Do not treat Middle Eastern restaurants as kosher · Hotel Silberhorn, Grindelwald (the Wagner-Kahn kosher hotel): closed in 1996 (Jüdische Allgemeine, 2011). The Hotel Silberhorn now in Wengen and another in Lauterbrunnen are ordinary hotels; I found no kosher service there · Hotel Palace, Wengen (kosher summer programme run by an Israeli operator, 2015 press): now 'Hotel Palace Intersoc', open only to members of a Belgian health fund since winter 2016/17 (Google reviewers repeat this) · Pension Levy (opened 1889) and Hotel De la Paix (1928, house synagogue) in Interlaken: historical kosher houses; a press piece describes them as history, and no current kosher pension was found online as of Nov 2026 · jgluzern.ch: returned an unrelated shop page on 1 Nov 2026 (the community's old site address), so use the phone number from Google instead · Summer 2026 kosher programmes in the Alps: a totallyjewishtravel page titled 'Tourman kosher summer retreat Scuol Switzerland 2026' appeared in a search (Scuol is in the Engadin, not the Oberland) and was not opened; totallyjewishtravel's Grindelwald kosher-tours page showed no listings. Nothing found online as of Nov 2026 for Interlaken or Grindelwald · Restaurant Lindenblüte (Brienz): a Google description lists 'kosher' among dietary options but states no hechsher, so it is not treated as a kosher outlet · Mikvah in Lucerne: not found online as of Nov 2026; totallyjewishtravel has a page titled 'Mikvah Lucerne' (listing TE23388) that could not be opened (rate-limited on 2 Nov 2026), Google Places returns no Lucerne mikvah and chabadluzern.com links only a general mikvah article. Ask Chabad Lucerne