Sixth Annual Mitzvah Marathon Beats Rain, Draws Hundreds

For the first year since the inception of the program six years ago, the campus wide Mitzvah Marathon commemorating 9/11 had to be moved into an indoor venue due to inclement weather. Despite this setback which did not allow for the usual exposure to students going back and forth to classes, the marathon drew the participation of over 800 students who did a mitzvah to honor the memory of the victims. A wall of remembrance was erected on which were hung the pictures of victims, each attached to a card which had the name of a BU student and the mitzvah they performed in memory of the victim. Students contributed to various charities, donated blood, made peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches for the homeless, made get well cards for children in hospitals and holiday cards for Jewish troops, donned tefillin, said prayers, and pledged to conserve energy among other mitzvah options.

The Mitzvah Marathon is spearheaded by the Chabad House Jewish Student Center and co-sponsored by Hillel and the Jewish Heritage Program. The Mitzvah Marathon project was initiated by Chabad House in 2002; to date, the program is duplicated on over fifteen campuses.