(Forward) The Muslim crowd funding campaign to support victims of last month’s synagogue massacre has distributed its final grant of money to Pittsburgh, its organizer told the Forward.
All in all, $238,634 was raised in a little more than a week, much more than the original goal of $150,000. The crowd funding campaign’s organizers first disbursed $155,000 ($5,000 more than the original goal) to Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Congregation via a local partner mosque, and then deliberated on what to do with the remainder.
Now they’ve decided to send it to that mosque, the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, which in turn gave it to Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Congregation to be used for Jewish-Muslim solidarity and collaboration projects, Tarek El-Messidi of the Muslim educational group CelebrateMercy wrote on his crowdfunding page on Tuesday.
