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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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Ross Peizer
Ross Peizer, from Seattle, WA, attended Boston University, where he majored in Communication, with concentrations in Public Relations and Psychology. Ross visited New Orleans during an Alternative Spring Break trip, and has participated in two service trips to Israel, volunteering at a soup kitchen. He has also served as a Corps member in the Southwest Conservation Corps, maintaining and building nature trails, and has volunteered with other young Jewish professionals through the MenschWorks program of the Jewish Federation of Seattle. Ross serves as the Intake Assistant at Rebuilding Together New Orleans, helping homeowners through the application system to receive assistance and finally get their homes rebuilt. Ross functions as the primary point of contact with homeowners and will act as an advocate on their behalf, both within the organization and with other agencies citywide.

Second Impressions of New Orleans

Oct 25th, 2010 by Ross Peizer | 0

After living in New Orleans for two months I’ve seen and learned about many of the challenges that I did not expect to be as present five years after Hurricane Katrina. I came down here during college to gut homes and felt really sad when I saw the home I worked on three years ago [...]

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