The Hebrew word “mitzvah” describes a good deed, and many Jews from across the city did just that on Christmas morning.
“We wanted to serve our Christian brothers and sisters today,” said Rabbi Susan Tendler from the B’nai Zion Synagogue.
A group of more than 50 members of the Jewish community, many of whom attend B’nai Zion, served a hot lunch and homemade desserts to patients and their families who were at Erlanger hospital on Christmas.
“Anything we can do to make their lives better,” Tendler said, as she showed her daughter how to roll silverware into a napkin.
Kids, parents and grandparents stood behind a buffet line, outside of the main hospital cafeteria, filling plates with turkey and dressing, cooked carrots, mashed potatoes, green beans and a slew of different homemade desserts.