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 [...]
Read full post...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.
Read full post...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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Read full post...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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