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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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Rebuilding Together New Orleans, an AVODAH placement organization, receives praise in The Atlantic

May 31st, 2011 by admin | 0

Rebuilding Together New Orleans - an AVODAH placement organization for three years - received praise in a recent article in the Atlantic. The article, “Sustainable New Orleans: How Katrina Made a City Greener” was written by Kaid Benfield, the director of the Sustainable Communities and Smart Growth program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and co-founder [...]

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Parashat Ki Tavo: A D’var Torah on Ki Tavo and the Fifth Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

Aug 28th, 2010 by Michal Boyarsky | 0

This week’s Torah Portion, Ki Tavo, begins with a description of the ceremony for bringing the first fruits to the Temple.  The farmer is to give the produce to the priest, who “set[s] it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.”  The farmer then recites the following:
My [...]

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A Year in Blog Posts (And What’s Next)

Aug 17th, 2010 by Rachel Lee | 0

As the second year of AVODAH New Orleans comes to a close, here are some updates on your friendly neighborhood Corps Members (and intrepid bloggers).
Rachel Glicksman, a native New Yorker, blogged about falling in love with a new city, hosting a pumpkin parade for her placement organization and helping to build a community garden. She [...]

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Incoming Corps members arrive in August

May 12th, 2010 by admin | 0

Mollie Flink, from Deerfield, IL, graduated from Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary with Bachelors of Arts degrees in English and Bible. She received a Seminary fellowship in Jewish Social Entrepreneurship, during which she advocated for the West Side Campaign Against Hunger. She also served as a reading aide to sixth grade students struggling [...]

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Rebuilding the Lower 9th Ward

Oct 14th, 2009 by admin | 0

Click here for a multimedia slideshow of David’s work in the Lower 9th Ward, produced by AVODAH alum Ari Shapiro.
As an AVODAHnik during the 2008-09 program year, David Eber worked as the Sustainability Outreach Coordinator at the Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development. He has been able to continue his work at [...]

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AVODAH’s work in New Orleans featured in Times-Picayune article

Sep 8th, 2009 by admin | 2

Local News from New Orleans, Louisiana
Jewish roots tapped in fight for social justice
by Bruce Nolan, The Times-Picayune
Sunday September 06, 2009, 11:01 PM

From the little office behind Little Zion Baptist Church, David Eber, 24 and a year out of Oregon, works on storm recovery projects among residents of the Lower 9th Ward, distributing [...]

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