Mosque and synagogue join forces for the homeless on Mitzvah Day (From Enfield Independent)
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Palmers Green Mosque and North London Reform Synagogue join forces for Homeless Action in Barnet on Mitzvah Day
8:50am Wednesday 23rd November 2011 in Top Stories
Volunteers spent the day outside Morrisons in Palmers Green.
WORSHIPPERS from a synagogue and a mosque joined forces to deliver £500 of donated products to the homeless on Mitzvah Day.
Members of the North London Reform Synagogue, in Oakleigh Road North, Whetstone, joined activists from Palmers Green Mosque, in Oakthorpe Road, to spend four hours volunteering outside Morrisons in Aldermans Hill on Sunday.
The group got shoppers to buy products from the supermarket which they later delivered to Homeless Action in Barnet as part of the Jewish-led annual good deeds day, which the mosque called 'Sadaqah Day' – meaning charity day.
Rabbi Colin Eimer, of the North London Reform Synagogue said that the volunteers received around £500 of non-perishable goods from members of the public.
He said: “We ended up with an enormous amount in the end.
“The sense of the mosque and the synagogue working together - which we wanted to emphasise - was really wonderful, and people who were shopping said it was great to see.”
