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.

Author Archive

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.

Love and Support for All Students

Mar 24th, 2010 by Mallory Falk | 0

I recently received an email from a friend teaching English in China. The subject line was “Bad Day,” and my friend wrote about all the difficulties of teaching in a tightly structured, test-driven school – how the intensity and pressure drove one of her students to take his own life. “I miss the USA with [...]

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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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