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