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.

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Amanda Gross, from Waban, MA, attended Elon University, where she majored in Psychology with a triple-minor in Spanish, International Studies, and Religious Studies. Amanda has travelled extensively in the Americas, studying abroad in Costa Rica and Peru and taking alternative spring break trips to the Domincan Republic and Mexico. Amanda will be serving as the Intake Coordinator at Rebuilding Together New Orleans, helping homeowners through the application system so they can receive assistance and finally get their homes rebuilt. Amanda will function as the primary point of contact with homeowners and act as an advocate on their behalf, both within the organization and with other agencies citywide.

Unexpected Insight into What We Have

Feb 21st, 2010 by Amanda Gross | 1

Although the city of New Orleans has been super busy with the Super Bowl, elections, Mardi Gras, work, visitors, and a variety of other fun events, I have been given the additional opportunity of planning for a group of 16 Northeastern Hillel students to come down for an alternative Spring Break trip February 28th-March 7th. [...]

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