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