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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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The Second Year Corps Member Initiative: Why I Chose to Stay

Mar 9th, 2010 by rwaxman | 1

New Orleans as a city seems to be healing.  Potholes in our streets are slowly being filled, blighted houses slated for demolition are disappearing, and schools are re-opening.  We are winning lawsuits that protect our citizens’ rights while recovery agencies are rehabilitating parks and playgrounds overrun by drugs.  And yet the people of New Orleans [...]

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