As part of National Mitzvah Day, hundreds of volunteers participated in a chicken soup cook-a-thon for homeless shelters and others in need
LONDON – London School of Economics students showed up with the matzo meal, the Halal caterers came schlepping 90 chickens and 40 kilos of carrots and the Muslim scouts from the 8th East London troops rolled up their sleeves, joining in with the New Stoke Newington synagogue youngsters in chopping up wedges of garlic.
The chicken soup cook-a-thon Sunday, which saw hundreds of young volunteers getting together at dozens of venues across the country to cook up traditional pots of soup – was this years’ flagship event for the national Mitzvah Day. As its name implies, Mitzvah Day gets Jewish communities and individuals to sign up for projects and spend a day doing mitzvahs, preferably sweeping up their non-Jewish friends and neighbors in the efforts.
