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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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Mallory Falk
Mallory Falk grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, and attended Middlebury College, where she majored in English and American Literatures, with a concentration in Creative Writing. Throughout college, Mallory was actively involved in the Page 1 Literacy Project, serving as Assistant Board Chair, and established and led after-school programs in creative writing and playwriting. At Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools (Rethink), Mallory will work directly with student participants, helping to implement new programs and facilitating current after-school programs. Rethink supports and empowers young people to use their experiences, their voices and their leadership to create positive change in their schools and in their world.

Living and Working “Among”

Sep 24th, 2009 by Mallory Falk | 1

Last week, we had the great privilege of meeting with Abram Himelstein. Abram is our landlord and, more significantly, a founder of the Neighborhood Story Project. He spoke about working with community members to write books about their neighborhoods. My housemates and I were inspired, energized, insanely jealous. (Many of us strive to be like [...]

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