Highlights of Mitzvah Month 2020


Union of Jewish Women Johannesburg


Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg planting for Jewish Care's Winter Wellbeing project


Bringing Smiles To Your Door brought joy to local residents


MD Vice Chair Lee Sidney donating to GIFT


Yeshurun Federation Synagogue food bank collection for GIFT


Mitzvah Day team member, Debbie, delivering food to local Food Bank


BBYO UK produce special video performances for Jewish Care residents


Clore Tikva Primary School made chocolates for key workers


Newcastle Irene Gattoff age 101 sews blankets for Mitzvah Day


Makabi Zagreb gardening project


Apples and Honey at Nightingale PJ Library reading project


Brazil


Charlotte Evans, Age 2, donating food to the Borehamwood Food Bank for Mitzvah Day


South Hampstead High School food collection © Photo by Yakir Zur


Three Counties Liberal Jewish Community collection for Worcester food bank


Bushey United© Photo by Yakir Zur


Rabbi Jeff Berger at the Gratitude Project


Joely Bear blood drive at Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue


Neighbours in Lake View in Edgware baked and made face masks for St Luke's Hospice


Abigail Mann and The Minutes for Miles Programme


Amber Jackson and Charlie Pincus collecting for Food Bank Aid


Langdon members packed items for Goods for Good


FZY members volunteered at a food bank and delivered food to Holocaust survivors


Kingston Liberal Synagogue produced videos for care homes


Hove based volunteer Jacqui and dog Babs delivered food to isolated neighbours


Holland Park collection point


Chocolate making for NHS staff at St Bartholomew's, Queens and Newham General Hospitals by staff and pupils of Clore Tikva School


Nashim Wessex at the Hope for Food Soup soup kitchen with donations of fresh food


Pinner United Synagogue cookalong for Hillingdon Crisis Support


Neder Alicante


Whitefield Synagogue collected for GIFT


Gesher School pupils decorated challah cloths for the Together Plan


Brondesbury Park 2020 Mitzvah Morning


Birmingham JSoc


MD Trustee Michael Livingston and his family supported their local food bank


Matana Club, Scotland, packed bags for needy kids


Friendship Circle Manchester


A resident at Jewish Care's Betty and Asher Loftus packing stationary for Goods for Good


Nagila Nusery


NNLS Niki Jackson planting project for Jewish Care


Mitzvah Day Brazil collected items to help local homeless people


A younger member of Bushey Synagogue taking part in 'Notes for Neighbours'


One of the many PJ Library projects


Bringing Smiles To Your Door


Tulip Siddiq MP joins HMDT to make cards for those who might be vulnerable during lockdown


Chef Pete bakes for Norwood


LJY Netzer brought together young people from 12 Liberal communities


Pupils at Carrfield Primary Academy in Rotherham planted flowers and tidied their grounds


Jewish Care Scotland


Bedfordshire Progressive Synagogue knit and natter with items going to local hospitals


Mensch South Africa cleared miles of beaches


Bnei Akiva


The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community N London ladies branch collected for their local Church's homeless programme


Temple Israel - Cape Town


Mazon Australia


Mitzvah Day collections for GIFT


Mitzvah Day CEO Georgina Bye takes part in Bringing Smiles To Your Door


Barnet Mayor Caroline Stock making door step deliveries for Mitzvah Day


Bowden Synagogue in Manchester made letters, poems and pictures for residents at Heathlands Village


MD Trustee Edwin Shuker collected for Barnet Food Bank


Newcastle supported their local food bank


St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School assembled Vinnie Packs for the homeless


Volunteers from Kahal distribute care packages


Makkabi Germany litter picks


JCC Krakow feed the needy


Joshua Brown and his grandma Stephanie Isaacs preparing food for Wellspring homeless facility in Stockport


Mill Hill United Synagogue collected items for doorstop drops to vulnerable people


Board of Deputies support Food Banks


Project IMPACT cookathon to support Crisis UK, JW3 and Unitas


Ilford Federation food collection© Photo by Yakir Zur


WIJPS collected for Camp Simcha and Redbridge Food Bank


Sheffield members wrote to residents at Heathlands


Sir Keir Starmer at South Hampstead Synagogue © Photo by Yakir Zur


Bowdon’s Bea is sweet as honey - South Manchester - Bowden


Top chef Silvia Nacamuli leads JVNs Bake-A-Long


Messages of appreciation from the children at Kantor King Solomon


Pinner United Synagogue Goods for Good car park collection © Photo by Yakir Zur


Nisa-Nashim Edgware interfaith doorstep delivery


Jewish Reform Congregation Shirat HaYam in Ukraine collected toys and sweets for children in hospital


Minister for Faith Lord Greenhalgh supporting Mitzvah Day


Gratitude Project collecting food


East London & Essex Liberal made cakes for Mill Grove children's home


Lady Nafisa School helped out in their local community allotment


Stanmore and Canons Park made gratitude packs which the children decorated


Sybil Harris resident at Jewish Care's Lady Sarah Cohen House joins Keren Nurserys Zoom


Bishop of Edmonton Rob Wickham supporting Mitzvah Day


Madrid Communidad Judai Masorti Bet El


20th Finchley Scout Group member collection for Chipping Barnet Food Bank


Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue collected for multiple charities


South Hampstead High School card making © Photo by Yakir Zur


Bahar family making calls of kindness on behalf of JAMI


Basel behaved well for Mitzvah Day


Wizo Kids Victoria Australia


Gilah Nursery collection


Johannesburg team cleaning grave yards