by Jenna Pollock
AVODAH New Orleans Corps Member
IS INEQUALITY MAKING US SICK? COMMUNITY PARTNERS PRESENT GROUND-BREAKING DOCUMENTARY
UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? is a groundbreaking new documentary series that crisscrosses the country exploring how the social conditions in which Americans are born, live and work profoundly affect health and longevity, even more than medical [...]
Every year, Jazz Fest depends on volunteers to help make the festival happen. And every year, volunteers swarm in, benefitting from free entrance to the festival as a perk for donating their time and energy.
A recent article in the Times-Picayune highlights the seasoned volunteers, who come back year after year to work with local chefs [...]
After a decade of significant work in three major U.S. cities, AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps has brought its dedication for social justice to New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the city over three years ago, the Jewish community has been part of the extraordinary effort to help rebuild it, giving generously through [...]
Read full post...Green-Collar Job Training after Katrina
January 5, 2009
By Cassandra Stern
Apollo News Service
NEW ORLEANS - The shape of a national clean energy, good jobs training program for young people is gaining real definition here, where 800 young people are beginning full-time service as part of the Conservation Corps of Greater New Orleans, earning real money, educational stipends [...]
As we mark Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and look forward to a truly historic presidential inauguration, the American Jewish Committee and Office of Black Ministry of the Archdiocese of New York, supported by over 11 additional organizations and universities, are partnering for an exciting conference at Xavier University in New Orleans.
“Americans at [...]
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 [...]
Read full post...Katrina Volunteers
To commemorate the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, PBS affiliate Religion & Ethics Newsweekly produced a short 4:30 minute film on the role of religion and social justice work in the rebuilding of New Orleans.
Visit the website to view the video.
New Orleans has been named as a host city of the JCC Maccabi Artsfest for 2009. The festival will be held August 2-7, 2009. Potential teen participants should contact their local JCC. Individuals living in or planning to visit the New Orleans area during the ArtsFest who are interested in volunteering should contact the [...]
Read full post...In 2007, Rabbi Uri moved to New Orleans with his family to serve at Congregation Beth Israel. He was interviewed by The Jewish Press about his move to New Orleans from
New York, and about his perspective on the current state of the Jewish community here.
Rabbi Uri, his wife Dahlia, and their two sons, Elyon and [...]
Read full post...The recently published Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean, by Edward Kritzler, explores Jewish ties to the legendary pirates who plagued the Caribbean during the Age of Discovery. While the scholarship is lacking, according to Adam Kirsch, who wrote a review of the book for J. The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, the links Kritzler [...]
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