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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.

Archive for 'Resurrection After Exoneration' Category

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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Responses to $14m award granted to John Thompson

Jan 7th, 2009 by admin | Comments Off

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 [...]

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$14 million ruling upheld for John Thompson of RAE

Dec 23rd, 2008 by admin | 0

John Thompson was exonerated in 2003 after spending 14 years on death row for a murder he didn’t commit.  The US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just upheld a ruling that the New Orleans District Attorny’s office pay Thompson $1 million for each of those 14 years. As explained by the Times-Picayune on Sunday, Dec [...]

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In the News: RAE listed as top pick for donations by The Nation

Dec 19th, 2008 by admin | 0

The Nation magazine’s columnist Katha Pollitt publishes an annual list of organizations worthy of end-of-year donations. This year’s list, to be published in the January 5 edition, includes New Orleans’ own Resurrection After Exoneration. Here’s what she has to say about RAE:
4. Resurrection After Exoneration. An outgrowth of The Innocence Project of New Orleans, RAE is [...]

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Video Profile: Resurrection After Exoneration

Dec 9th, 2008 by admin | 0

Check out this video profiling Resurrection After Exoneration, a local nonprofit organization that works to help exonerees from death row reintegrate into society. Ora Nitkin-Kaner, a 2008-2009 AVODAH Corps member, is currently working as an Exoneree Advocate for RAE.

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