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

Tina Wexler, from Scarsdale, NY, studied Religion at Barnard College at Columbia University, where she minored in Anthropology and completed coursework for the Pre-Health track. Tina has worked as a research assistant at both St. Barnabas Hospital’s Department of Pediatrics and Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, and volunteered at a neonatal clinic in Bucharest, Romania, and served as a Columbia University EMT. As the Exoneree Advocate at Resurrection After Exoneration, Tina will work closely with project founder John Thompson, himself an exoneree, to help other exonerees with housing needs, health and medical care, education, work training, financial planning, life skills, and legal matters.

Beyond handouts, Exonerees Work for Justice

Jun 16th, 2010 by Tina Wexler | 0

John Thompson is an exoneree, and the founder and director of Resurrection After Exoneration;
Ora Nitkin-Kaner (AVODAH ‘08-’09) is a former exoneree advocate with RAE.
RAE is hosting its first organizational fundraiser on June 19th in New Orleans’ French Quarter to bring awareness of the issues of wrongful conviction to a larger audience. For more information, visit [...]

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Bamidbar

Mar 17th, 2010 by Tina Wexler | 0

Passover is coming! This is the one Jewish holiday I get truly giddy about. And I am especially excited to experience it with my new family this year, as sadly I will not make it home in time for the two seders. Pesach is so steeped in tradition for me, so I am curious how [...]

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Changing Environments

Oct 15th, 2009 by Tina Wexler | 1

The first time I got very homesick for my New York home was when I realized October had come to New Orleans without the pomp of changing leaves, chilly, dramatic fall breezes, and the corresponding change in the mood and fashion of those around me. Fall always signals a shift in energy in me and [...]

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