Mitzvah Day 2010
The mission of Mitzvah Day is to reduce hardship and poverty, to help our environment and to bring a little joy all through volunteering – not by fund raising. It is a way for all of us to make our mark regardless of our affiliation, level of religious conviction, wealth, age, sex or nationality. This year Mitzvah Day takes place on Sunday, 21st November.
Below is a selection of the events taking place in Reform communities. Please contact the synagogues directly if you would like to take part in the planned activites and click on the name of the community for full event details.
You can find out more about the day's events at the Mitzvah Day website as well a full list of participating organisations.
Alyth (Northwestern Reform Synagogue) have a busy programme of events for Mitzvah Day including interfaith activities, collecting food for homeless people in Barnet and Brent, gardening for Kisharon and packing presents for refugees.
Bournemouth Reform Synagogue will be decorating for the Bournemouth Society for the Visually Impaired, one of the Mayor's chosen charities.
Brighton and Hove Reform Synagogue are taking part in Mitzvah Day together with Helping Hands, involving the whole community. The Cheder will be getting involved preparing for the delivery of cakes across the community joining the whole community in the afternoon.
Finchley Reform Synagogue has a busy day planned including making Chanukah cards, baking biscuits, collecting for homeless people and destitute asylum seekers, visiting Rubens House and painting a clinic in Edgware.
At Harlow Jewish Community on Mitzvah Day the children of the community will not attend Cheder. Instead parents are encouraged to bring their children to a night shelter supported by them with weekly donations where they will learn about what is on offer for the people who stay there over Christmas and the New Year.
Hendon Reform Synagogue will be collecting food for homeless people and winter clothing for World Jewish Relief, helping Barnado's and senior citizens and making picture books for children in Ghana and Uganda through Lively Minds.
Kol Chai - Hatch End Jewish Community and Middlesex New Synagogue will be providing an ironing service in exchange for groceries which will be taken to the New Hope trust in Watford. They will also be making gift boxes for Barnado's, working on conservation projects with young people from across the community and spending time with partially sighted and blind people at Pocklington House.
Maidenhead Synagogue will be collecting clothing for homeless people, packing boxes for Barnardo's, redecorating a hospital playroom and holding a tea party for senior citizens.
Manchester Reform Synagogue will be helping out at an animal sanctuary, entertaining the residents of Heathlands, cleaning up Southern Cemetery, giving gifts to patients at the Royal Children's Hospital and collecting food for homeless people.
Radlett & Bushey Reform Synagogue will be planting trees and working on an interfaith environmental clean up project. The children of the community will also be taking part in a Blue Peter card making project and the youth club will will be making Chanukiot for the JAT to give to their clients at their Chanukah party.
Sinai Synagogue, Leeds will be working on a gardening project, packing and decorating children's gift boxes and helping out elderly members of the community.
West London Synagogue's Religion School and will be planting fruit trees as part of the Capital Growth project and helping out with jobs at Kentish Town City Farm. They will be assisted by members of West London Synagogue Young Adults who will also be collecting for the Karen Morris Memorial Trust at Brent Cross. The synagogue is also collecting items to support the JCORE Bag for Life Project, which is looking to provide bags filled with items to distribute to refugees and asylum seekers.
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