Grave project for Gauteng SAUPJ’s Mitzvah Day

Coming up with an activity for international Mizvah Day on 15 November was a no-brainer for the Gauteng Progressive movement, whose members spent the day cleaning up the Wall of Remembrance and children’s section at West Park Cemetery in Joburg.

Congregants from Gauteng progressive shuls spent the morning dusting down memorial plaques, before moving onto the babies’ section, where they raked up winter leaves, pulled weeds from graves, and gave it a general tidy up. The organisation will attend to minor structural damage to the Wall of Remembrance early in 2021.

The movement thanked Rabbi Julia Margolis, Rabbi Sa’ar Shaked, and congregants from the Gauteng South African Union for Progressive Judaism for their involvement and hard work in the scorching sunshine, saying that it hoped to do this more than just once a year.