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Read full post...‘Common indeed are the ethnographies in which poverty and inequality, the end result of a long process of impoverishment, are reduced to a form of cultural difference. We were sent to the field to look for different cultures. We saw oppression; it looked, well, different from our [...]
Read full post...Several weeks ago, one of my housemates brought up the question, “Are we radical?” The question lived as an item on our white board for the week preceding our house meeting, just the one word: “RADICAL?”
At the meeting, we composed a long list of what it meant to be Radical. No electricity, home- baked bread, [...]
As part of my AVODAH experience this year, I generally spend Tuesday evenings involved in some form of program at home or in a nearby spot that has agreed to host us. These range from learning about how New Orleans’ geography shaped its history to an introduction to the convoluted legal system, from exploring a [...]
Read full post...Note from the Editors: We are pleased to present this guest post from AVODAH alumn Michal Boyarsky (NOLA ‘09-’10). As with all writing on jews4neworleans.org this post reflects the personal experiences of the author and does not reflect the opinions of AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps.
What’s going on in Sheikh Jarrah is nothing new. [...]
More than 4,000 Jews from around the world came to New Orleans November 5-9, 2010 for the General Assembly (GA) of the Jewish Federations of North America, the largest annual gathering of Jewish professionals and lay leaders in the United States. The New Orleans Jewish community came out in force to volunteer at the event, [...]
Read full post...I’ve yet to officially ask my father’s permission, but I’d like to add a chapter to his book, Biking through the ‘Hoods, a recently self-published compilation of his explorations by bicycle in fifty American cities. It is a detailed volume to be sure, but New Orleans was never one of his destinations, so perhaps I [...]
Read full post...Our AVODAH community here in New Orleans is still in its beginning stages. We are new to this city, our jobs, and each other, making our collective insecurity a collective need to be addressed. We have done this beautifully. After two months of living together our burgeoning community already has an established ethic of gratitude [...]
Read full post...Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, I never felt like it was difficult to be Jewish. I was fortunate enough to attend Jewish day school from kindergarten through high school. Every Saturday, I walked five minutes from my house to synagogue with my family. I had a dozen kosher restaurants to choose from or [...]
Read full post...After living in New Orleans for two months I’ve seen and learned about many of the challenges that I did not expect to be as present five years after Hurricane Katrina. I came down here during college to gut homes and felt really sad when I saw the home I worked on three years ago [...]
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