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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.

Corps Member Profile: Meredith Grabek reflects on how she came to work with Rebuilding Together

Feb 6th, 2009 by admin | 0

Meredith Grabek only needed one short trip to New Orleans to know she wanted to live here. Having grown up in Paxton, Massachusetts, Meredith was a junior at the University of Delaware when she first visited the city on an alternative spring break trip with her Hillel. Instead of lounging on the beach [...]

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Meredith Grabek featured in local news

Jan 29th, 2009 by admin | 0

AVODAH Corps member Meredith Grabek was recently interviewed by two local news sources for her work with Rebuilding Together New Orleans.
Here, Meredith is featured on the Fox 8 news:

Also, listen to the WWNO news story that aired during NPR’s Morning Edition earlier this month. Click here.

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AVODAH Corps Member David Eber recognized in Oregon Press

Jan 20th, 2009 by admin | 0

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. [...]

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In the News: Green-Collar workforce training for youth

Jan 13th, 2009 by admin | 0

Green-Collar Job Training after Katrina

January 5, 2009
By Cassandra Stern
Apollo News Service
NEW ORLEANS - The shape of a national clean energy, good jobs training program for young people is gaining real definition here, where 800 young people are beginning full-time service as part of the Conservation Corps of Greater New Orleans, earning real money, educational stipends [...]

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Community Power Day, Jan 17

Jan 9th, 2009 by admin | 0

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Fit for a King Celebration, Jan 14-16

Jan 9th, 2009 by admin | 0

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Responses to $14m award granted to John Thompson

Jan 7th, 2009 by admin | Comments Off

John Thompson, photo from Resurrection After Exoneration

Updates on John Thompson’s $14 million judgment for his wrongful conviction provided by Ora Nitkin-Kaner, a 2008-2009 AVODAH Corps Member who works with John Thompson at Resurrection After Exoneration.
James Gill: Connick era bills come due

Posted by James Gill, Columnist, The Times-Picayune January 07, 2009 2:03AM
Angola’s death row isn’t [...]

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Conference MLK Weekend in New Orleans, January 17-19, 2008

Jan 6th, 2009 by admin | 0

As we mark Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and look forward to a truly historic presidential inauguration, the American Jewish Committee and Office of Black Ministry of the Archdiocese of New York, supported by over 11 additional organizations and universities, are partnering for an exciting conference at Xavier University in New Orleans.
“Americans at [...]

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Toiletry Drive for the New Orleans Women’s Shelter, Jan 16-19

Jan 6th, 2009 by admin | 0

A local event posted on the Barack Obama website. Swing by the Kingpin bar uptown next weekend to help out the New Orleans Women’s Shelter, an organization that is working hard to improve lives of local women and families. Read the original post here.

AVODAH Corps Member Yaeli Bronstein currently works an assistant at the New [...]

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PBS video on 3rd anniversary of Katrina

Jan 6th, 2009 by admin | 0

Katrina Volunteers

To commemorate the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, PBS affiliate Religion & Ethics Newsweekly produced a short 4:30 minute film on the role of religion and social justice work in the rebuilding of New Orleans.
Visit the website to view the video.

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