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.

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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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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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AVODAH welcomes new Corps members for 2009-2010 program year

May 15th, 2009 by admin | 0

NEW ORLEANS CORPS MEMBERS 2009-2010
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Jordan Aiken, from Pasadena, CA, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, where she majored in Mass Communications and minored in Global Poverty. Jordan spent a semester in Cape Town, South Africa, where she volunteered with Art Aids Art. She continued to work with the organization after returning to [...]

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Meredith Grabek: A Quiet Hero

Apr 22nd, 2009 by admin | 0

AVODAH Corps member Meredith Grabek was recently featured on New Orleans news station WWLTV in a segment called “Quiet Heroes”. The segment aired on April 14, 2009.

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The Importance of Counting

Apr 2nd, 2009 by admin | 0

Dvar Torah: March 21st 2009: Parashat Pekudei
Ora Nitkin-Kaner at Cong. Shir Chadash

Two days ago, nola.com featured the following headline: “New Orleans population tops 300,000 for first time since Katrina”. This is welcome news – news to be celebrated, particularly in a city that is still struggling to shake off the dust and debris of the [...]

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AVODAH New Orleans Launch Party, October 19, 2008

Dec 9th, 2008 by admin | 0

Footage of the Launch Party was shot and edited by Rachel Lee, 2008-2009 AVODAH Corps Member. See David Eber’s story for more details about the Launch event.

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