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Sharing a meal

Corps members live communally in their Jefferson Avenue house uptown

Shine

Celebrating Sukkot

In October 2008, Corps members hosted a potluck under the backyard sukkah

Churches

Resurrection After Exoneration

Ora Nitkin-Kaner, 08-09, still works at RAE after finishing the AVODAH program

Civic Involvement

Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development

Corps members visited this Lower 9th Ward organization during Orientation

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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How I Met Ruth

Dec 23rd, 2009 by Michal Boyarsky | 0

When I spent the night with Ruth, I didn’t even know what her last name was.  I didn’t know how old she was, or whether she’d had children, or what her line of work had been.
I met Ruth at a funeral home in Metairie.  It was raining and cold when I slid out of the [...]

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Trouble the Water

Sep 25th, 2009 by Michal Boyarsky | 0

On September 16th, 2009, five days after the eighth anniversary of Nine-Eleven, my nine housemates and I clustered around our basement TV. We were watching Trouble the Water, a documentary about Kimberly Rivers Roberts (rap artist extraordinaire), her husband Scott, and their 9th Ward neighbors. All were trapped in New Orleans during Katrina, and [...]

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