The most recent issue of the Gambit Weekly featured a profile on the state of Public Defense in Orleans parish. The system is underfunded, defense attorneys are overworked, and basic civil rights are at risk for individuals who cannot afford the high fees of a private attorney.
The Orleans Public Defenders office has partnered with AVODAH: [...]
Ellen Michael, a student at UD, recently visited New Orleans during an Alternative Break trip through her college Hillel program. Current AVODAH Corps Member Meredith Grabek graduated from UD last year, and had a hand in perpetuating the UD Hillel Alternative Winter Break trip to help rebuild New Orleans. Read about Meredith’s experiences during her [...]
Read full post...The Rethinkers are a group of youth activists who are coming up with innovative solutions for New Orleans schools. Last summer the Rethinkers focused on Food Justice, asking why they were being served food that was often frozen and unidentifiable. They held a press conference where they made 12 recommendations based on extensive research and [...]
Read full post...Last month, Baptist Hospital uptown (now owned by Ochsner) reopened its Emergency Room, giving uptown residents more convenient access to emergency healthcare. The openning has since been praised as another step towards recovery, since access to healthcare in New Orleans has been limited since Katrina. However, a story published in the Times-Picayune sheds light on [...]
Read full post...Check out this article posted by Kate Scott of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center on Change.org. Kate is also the supervisor for AVODAH Corps Member Rebecca Waxman, who works as a Fair Housing Assistant at FHAC.
Because 130 hours a week is not an option…
by Kate Scott
Published [...]
Meredith Grabek only needed one short trip to New Orleans to know she wanted to live here. Having grown up in Paxton, Massachusetts, Meredith was a junior at the University of Delaware when she first visited the city on an alternative spring break trip with her Hillel. Instead of lounging on the beach [...]
Read full post...AVODAH Corps member Meredith Grabek was recently interviewed by two local news sources for her work with Rebuilding Together New Orleans.
Here, Meredith is featured on the Fox 8 news:
Also, listen to the WWNO news story that aired during NPR’s Morning Edition earlier this month. Click here.
Read full post...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. [...]
John Thompson, photo from Resurrection After Exoneration
Updates on John Thompson’s $14 million judgment for his wrongful conviction provided by Ora Nitkin-Kaner, a 2008-2009 AVODAH Corps Member who works with John Thompson at Resurrection After Exoneration.
James Gill: Connick era bills come due
Posted by James Gill, Columnist, The Times-Picayune January 07, 2009 2:03AM
Angola’s death row isn’t [...]
A local event posted on the Barack Obama website. Swing by the Kingpin bar uptown next weekend to help out the New Orleans Women’s Shelter, an organization that is working hard to improve lives of local women and families. Read the original post here.
AVODAH Corps Member Yaeli Bronstein currently works an assistant at the New [...]
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