Jews for New Orleans

Sharing a meal

Corps members live communally in their Jefferson Avenue house uptown

Purim Masks

Corps members prepare for Purim celebrations by creating masks

Planting trees in Central City

Rachel Glicksman works with residents to beautify the neighborhood

Celebrating Chanukah

Corps members welcomed coworkers and community members to their home

Learning about Bayou Bienvenue

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

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.

AVODAH Corps Member David Eber recognized in Oregon Press

Jan 20th, 2009 by admin | 1

Oregonians fighting poverty

By DEBORAH MOON

article created on: 2009-01-15

Four 20-something Oregonians—Briana Carp, Samuel Asarnow and Viviana Gordon from Portland, and David Eber from Salem—are spending a year performing community service through Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps.

The year-long service corps brings recent college graduates from a range of Jewish backgrounds to work full-time on urban poverty issues. Founded in 1998, the domestic service program has grown from nine service members its first year in New York City, to 59 current Avodah members volunteering in New York, Chicago, New Orleans and Washington, DC.

David Eber, describing the erosion of cypress forests in Bayou Bienvenue to fellow AVODAHniks

Eber, from Salem, is a graduate of the University of Oregon. He is spending the year in New Orleans where he volunteers as a sustainable development campaign coordinator at the Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development.