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Sharing a meal

Corps members live communally in their Jefferson Avenue house uptown

Shine

Purim Masks

Corps members prepare for Purim celebrations by creating masks

Churches

Planting trees in Central City

Rachel Glicksman works with residents to beautify the neighborhood

Civic Involvement

Celebrating Chanukah

Corps members welcomed coworkers and community members to their home

Action

Learning about Bayou Bienvenue

Alum David Eber teaches the group about deforestation in the cypress swamps

Churches

Highlighting the Jewish Community's Involvement in Rebuilding New Orleans

This site is hosted by AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps, which launched its New Orleans program in the fall of 2008. AVODAH engages young people in direct work on the causes and effects of poverty in the United States. This work partners Corps members with service providers and residents in low income communities and equips our Corps members and alumni to emerge as lifelong agents for social change, whose work for justice is rooted in and nourished by Jewish values.

Meet the 2008-09 AVODAH New Orleans Corps Members »

Why Does New Orleans Still Need Your Help? Watch the Video.

Sep 7th, 2008 by admin | 0
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When Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck New Orleans, the American Jewish community responded, like other Americans, with volunteers, charitable contributions, and widespread concern.

Help AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps bring young people to New Orleans for a year of full-time work at local organizations working to find solutions to the city’s needs for
housing, education, job training, and other poverty-related issues.

AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps

AVODAH’s mission is to mobilize and strengthen a new generation of young Jews seeking to change the world and themselves through direct work on poverty issues. While working locally, Corps members live communally and study both how to make change in the world and the Jewish connections to social justice. AVODAH currently runs the year-long program in Chicago, New York City and Washington, DC. Starting next fall AVODAH will be placing Corps members in New Orlean

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