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.

April is Fair Housing Month

Apr 13th, 2009 by admin | 0

About Fair Housing Month

The federal Fair Housing Act was passed on April 11, 1968, seven days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King and other civil rights leaders advocated for passage of the law for years, but it was only after King’s death and at the urging of President Lyndon B. Johnson that Congress enacted the law. The current version of the law provides that it is illegal to discriminate against people seeking housing based on their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability and/or familial status.

Learn more @ gnofairhousing.org/outreach
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The House We Live In
Screening & Story Circle

Monday, April 20th @ 7 PM
(doors & refreshments @ 6:30)
Community Book Center
2523 Bayou Rd.

GNOFHAC partners with Junebug Productions to screen an hour-long segment of the provocative PBS documentary RACE- The Power of an Illusion. Part 3, “The House We Live In,” focuses on the ways our institutions and policies have historically advantaged some groups at the expense of others, and limited access to the American Dream. Learn about how the Federal Housing Administration, established to provide homeownership opportunities to World War II veterans, institutionalized racially discriminatory sales and lending policies whose devastating consequences can be seen in our communities today. Screening followed by a facilitated story circle.

Learn more about the movie.

Know Your Housing Rights
Fair Housing Training for People with Disabilities

Tuesday April 21 · 1:30-3:00 PM
1010 Common St.
2nd Floor Conference Room

Are you having difficulty locating an accessible rental unit? Want to learn more about the accessibility requirements that new multifamily developments must comply with, and about whether recent local developments are in compliance?

The Advocacy Center and GNO Fair Housing Action Center are please to bring you a comprehensive training on how the Fair Housing Act and related laws protect people with disabilities. Training will focus on the design and construction standards required under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The training will also address the findings of a recent investigation on local compliance, and what people with disabilities should do if they perceive a violation of design and construction requirements in new developments.

It’s free! Register now.