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Most of the money — from that first campaign and a second one inspired by the massacre of 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue — has been distributed, the Forward has determined by speaking with CelebrateMercy founding director Tarek El-Messidi, as well as Jewish leaders who have been working with him. The rest is still available because of the complicated nature of disbursing and spending large chunks of money, but El-Messidi has plans for it.
Celebrate Mercy says it distributed $55,000 of the cemetery crowdfunding in the subsequent months: $40,000 the St. Louis cemetery, Chesed Shel Emes; and $5,000 each to the Chicago Loop Synagogue, Britton Road Cemetery in Rochester, and the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, all of which had been vandalized as well.
El-Messidi said on Tuesday, one of his employees had that very day mailed a $10,000 check to Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh, where 11 people were killed last month. He hopes the money will be used to repair the building, which was damaged with bullet holes from the shooting. He predicted it would arrive in Pittsburgh on Saturday.
https://forward.com/news/national/4...oney-for-jews-recently-heres-where-its-going/
Celebrate Mercy says it distributed $55,000 of the cemetery crowdfunding in the subsequent months: $40,000 the St. Louis cemetery, Chesed Shel Emes; and $5,000 each to the Chicago Loop Synagogue, Britton Road Cemetery in Rochester, and the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, all of which had been vandalized as well.
El-Messidi said on Tuesday, one of his employees had that very day mailed a $10,000 check to Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh, where 11 people were killed last month. He hopes the money will be used to repair the building, which was damaged with bullet holes from the shooting. He predicted it would arrive in Pittsburgh on Saturday.
https://forward.com/news/national/4...oney-for-jews-recently-heres-where-its-going/