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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.

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AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps' 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. Each year AVODAH recruits recent college graduates from a wide range of Jewish backgrounds to work full-time on urban poverty issues in Chicago, New York City, and Washington, DC. In the fall of 2008, AVODAH began bringing idealistic and passionate young people to strengthen the rebuilding efforts in New Orleans.

AVODAH’s work in New Orleans featured in Times-Picayune article

Sep 8th, 2009 by admin | 2

Local News from New Orleans, Louisiana
Jewish roots tapped in fight for social justice
by Bruce Nolan, The Times-Picayune
Sunday September 06, 2009, 11:01 PM

From the little office behind Little Zion Baptist Church, David Eber, 24 and a year out of Oregon, works on storm recovery projects among residents of the Lower 9th Ward, distributing [...]

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Writing 2.0: Using new technology to inspire a new generation of (re)thinkers

May 15th, 2009 by admin | 0

by Rachel Lee
AVODAH New Orleans Corps Member
Writing is so much more than putting a pencil to a piece of paper. This is one of the basic ideas of the Rethink Writers’ Group, which I co-facilitate as part of my AVODAH placement at Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools. When I joined the Writer’s Group, [...]

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AVODAH welcomes new Corps members for 2009-2010 program year

May 15th, 2009 by admin | 0

NEW ORLEANS CORPS MEMBERS 2009-2010
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Jordan Aiken, from Pasadena, CA, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, where she majored in Mass Communications and minored in Global Poverty. Jordan spent a semester in Cape Town, South Africa, where she volunteered with Art Aids Art. She continued to work with the organization after returning to [...]

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Volunteers help with Jazz Fest food experience

May 5th, 2009 by admin | 0

Every year, Jazz Fest depends on volunteers to help make the festival happen. And every year, volunteers swarm in, benefitting from free entrance to the festival as a perk for donating their time and energy.
A recent article in the Times-Picayune highlights the seasoned volunteers, who come back year after year to work with local chefs [...]

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Meredith Grabek: A Quiet Hero

Apr 22nd, 2009 by admin | 0

AVODAH Corps member Meredith Grabek was recently featured on New Orleans news station WWLTV in a segment called “Quiet Heroes”. The segment aired on April 14, 2009.

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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 [...]

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Interpreting Black-Brown Relations, Tuesday April 14

Apr 13th, 2009 by admin | 0

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Resurrection After Exoneration unveils new website

Apr 2nd, 2009 by admin | 0

Visit the site, r-a-e.org, to learn more about the organization, and to watch videos of exonerees telling their stories.

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Harvard Students Visit New Orleans for Alternative Spring Break

Apr 2nd, 2009 by admin | 0

During their spring break, these Harvard students had the opportunity to shadow physicians at a handful of local clinics. They learned about the major changes the New Orleans healthcare system has undergone since the destruction of Charity Hospital during Katrina.
Here is what one student learned about the situation from Tulane’s Dean of the School of [...]

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The Importance of Counting

Apr 2nd, 2009 by admin | 0

Dvar Torah: March 21st 2009: Parashat Pekudei
Ora Nitkin-Kaner at Cong. Shir Chadash

Two days ago, nola.com featured the following headline: “New Orleans population tops 300,000 for first time since Katrina”. This is welcome news – news to be celebrated, particularly in a city that is still struggling to shake off the dust and debris of the [...]

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