About Mitzvah Day

What You Can Do Now

Donate Blood
Nov 8–Dec 4  
Sign up for our blood drive at the New York Blood Center’s Upper East Side location.

Purchase a Holiday Gift 
Purchase a present for a local child and wrap it on Mitzvah Day.
In partnership with the Jewish Board.

Beautify Our Neighborhood
Sun / Nov 22 / 1:30 pm  
Register today to help clean up a local park the afternoon of Mitzvah Day.  

Midnight Run
Drop off new or gently used winter clothing for adults (large coats, hats, and gloves are most needed) for PAS teens to distribute to New Yorkers living on the street. 

Mitzvah Day Activities

Packed with Love 

Assemble care packages to benefit New Yorkers: 

  • Reusable menstrual care kits for our Teen Food Pantry, which benefits our Upper East Side neighbors 

  • Winter care packages for clients of Blue Card, which provides direct financial assistance to Holocaust survivors in need 

  • Personal-care bags for clients of Win, which provides family shelter and supportive housing in NYC 

  • Literacy kits for children and toiletry kits for adult clients of the Jewish Board, which provides integrated mental health and social services to New Yorkers 

  • Dental hygiene kits for elderly clients of Met Council, which fights poverty and helps individuals move from crisis to self-sufficiency  

  • Care packages for clients of Project Ezra, which works with the frail Jewish elderly on the Lower East Side  

  • Decorate cards to accompany each care packages 

Wrap Up Something Special 
Nourish Our Neighbors 

  • Make sandwiches and assemble lunch bags for clients of Coalition for the Homeless. 

  • Help PAS teens package goods for their annual Food Pantry Thanksgiving distribution. 

Fuel Your Mitzvah-Making 

  • Stop by the Lemonade Stand run by Congregational School students and parents, which benefits the Clergy Welfare Fund.   

  • Enjoy a snack at the Mitzvah Day Cafe. 

Coin Sorting  

  • Collected coins will benefit the Teen Food Pantry and the Clergy Welfare Fund.  

Hands-On Crafting 

  • Make friendship bracelets for Friendship Circle, which supports Jewish people with special needs.