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Sharing a meal

Corps members live communally in their Jefferson Avenue house uptown

Shine

Purim Masks

Corps members prepare for Purim celebrations by creating masks

Churches

Planting trees in Central City

Rachel Glicksman works with residents to beautify the neighborhood

Civic Involvement

Celebrating Chanukah

Corps members welcomed coworkers and community members to their home

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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Miriam Liebman
Miriam Liebman grew up in Farmington Hills, MI, and attended the University of Michigan, where she earned a degree in Middle East and North African Studies. Miriam spent a semester abroad at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. As the recipient of a fellowship from Abraham’s Vision, she traveled to the Balkans to study comparative conflict analysis with Palestinian and Israeli students. She has also participated in two alternative break service trips to New Orleans. Miriam was an AVODAH Corps member during the 2009-2010 program year, serving as an Outreach Assistant at the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center.

New Beginnings

Oct 20th, 2009 by Miriam Liebman | 0

One week after moving to New Orleans and beginning Avodah, I got a call from my family letting me know that my grandfather passed away. That day, some of my housemates put together a lunch bag full of food for me to take on my flight back to Michigan with me. They signed the bag, [...]

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