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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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Visioning Cities and Remembering our Past

Mar 12th, 2010 by deber | 0

One thing AVODAH helped me realize is my love for cities. That may sound odd, but AVODAH helped me come to New Orleans, and it gave me a framework through which to see the city anew. My work at The Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement And Development, which deals largely with planning issues, has [...]

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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 Corps Member David Eber recognized in Oregon Press

Jan 20th, 2009 by admin | 1

Oregonians fighting poverty
By DEBORAH MOON
article created on: 2009-01-15
Four 20-something Oregonians—Briana Carp, Samuel Asarnow and Viviana Gordon from Portland, and David Eber from Salem—are spending a year performing community service through Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps.
The year-long service corps brings recent college graduates from a range of Jewish backgrounds to work full-time on urban poverty issues. [...]

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