Broadway Cares charity group ripped for channeling $400K of donations to Gaza

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Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS are often seen with the red buckets making a pitch for their cause and collecting donations from theatergoers as actors take their final bow after the performance.The group recently announced that it donated two $200,000 donations to Doctors for the World and the International Rescue Committee to provide humanitarian assistance in Gaza while the war rages between Israel and Hamas.

But Rabbi Erica Gerson filed a complaint with Attorney General Letitia James’ Charities Bureau, saying the group was misleading theatergoers about the purpose of the donations.Gerson recently donated to Broadway Cares while attending the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child show with her daughter.Afterward, Gerson said she was flabbergasted when she saw a story in the theater publication, Playbill, that Broadway Cares donated $400,000 for humanitarian efforts in Gaza.“I was entirely misled by both the verbal pitch at the theater and the description on the website.

I am sure other theaters would feel the same if this were brought to their attention,” Gerson said in the complaint sent to Attorney General Letitia James’ Office, which regulates tax-exempt charitable organizations.“The common understanding is that these funds support theater professionals in the United States.” In her complaint, she links to two videos of actors in the musicals “Gutenberg!” and “Merrily We Roll Along” appealing to audiences to contribute to Broadway Cares to aid ailing workers in the theater.

During a Post interview Tuesday, Gerson also expressed concern whether the money would make its way to the credible humanitarian groups or be intercepted by the terrorist group Hamas, which invaded Israel and killed 1,200 people, igniting a brutal.