By Rob Jennings 

More than 10,000 pounds of food have been donated to Jewish residents in Jersey City reeling not only from the fatal shootings of four, but the loss of their only kosher grocery store.

Two days after JC Kosher Supermarket was all but destroyed during a lengthy gun battle, the New York City-based Met Council supplied a wide range of food – such as cholent mix, challah, eggs and rugelach – to the approximately 100 families who had relied on the grocery store for their religious dietary needs.

Mayor Steve Fulop sought help from the non-profit organization on Wednesday night and the deliveries were underway the following day.

Residents were picking up food at the Bethune Center, with volunteers in some cases taking orders and making home deliveries, the Met Council said in a press release.

David Greenfield, the Met Council’s CEO, praised Fulop for his “leadership and sensitivity to the needs of his kosher constituents.”

Fulop tweeted his thanks, stating, “We are all one big community and helping each other is what it’s about.”

Customers displaced by Tuesday’s shootings – which claimed the lives of the store’s co-owner, Leah Mindel Ferencz, employee Douglas Miguel Rodriguez and customer Moshe Deutsch in addition to a Jersey City police detective, Joseph Seals, killed about a mile away – may be requiring assistance for some time.

While the supermarket is a crime scene and closed indefinitely, a rabbi who is overseeing an online fundraiser for the family of Ferencz, a mother of 3, said Friday that her husband and others have spoken of someday reopening the store.

“Their intention is absolutely to reopen, with God’s help,” said Rabbi Moshe Schapiro of the Chabad of Hoboken and Jersey City, a synagogue, school and outreach center founded in 2001.

An even greater tragedy for the family on Tuesday was narrowly averted.

Ferencz’s husband, Moishe Ferencz, left the store shortly before the attack for an afternoon service at a nearby synagogue, Schapiro said previously.

The statement from Met Council did not indicate whether it will continue providing food to Jersey City, but the 47-year-old organization – whose full name is the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty – has an extensive record of aid.

It said it provides daily deliveries to more than 40 kosher food panties and serves an estimated 7.2 million free meals annually.

Greenfield planned this week’s food distribution in consultation with Jessica Chait, the Met Council’s managing director of food, and deputy chief of staff Ben Segal.

“We made sure that these 100 families had everything they needed,” Greenfield said.

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