Mitzvah Day: Jews and Muslims come together to cook chicken soup
 

Traditional Jewish dish is prepared at East London mosque on day of social action

It is a beloved Jewish dish, served at Shabbat dinners to family and friends and reputed to have powerful medicinal properties. It is not normally cooked or served in a mosque.

But on Sunday, vast quantities of chicken soup – often known as “Jewish penicillin” – were being made at the East London mosque by Jewish and Muslim volunteers to be distributed to homeless centres.

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