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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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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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Navigating the red tape of the school to prison pipeline

Jan 22nd, 2010 by Laura Taishoff | 1

One of the biggest aspects of my job as a Youth Advocate at Juvenile Regional Services is checking in with the kids who are in the post dispositional phase. This means that the juvenile has gone through the sentencing process and is either on probation or in secure care. The majority of juveniles that I [...]

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Helping to shelter the homeless: An editorial

Jan 16th, 2010 by Rachel Lee | 0

Rebecca Waxman, a former AVODAH Corps Member, now works with UNITY of Greater New Orleans. This editorial by the Times-Picayune Editorial page staff highlights their extraordinary work during last weekend’s freezing temperatures.

The frigid temperatures that gripped the New Orleans area for five nights last week dipped to a deadly level. But apparently only two [...]

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“Go You Forth” Benefit Concert, October 15

Oct 7th, 2009 by admin | 0

Neshama Carlebach Hosts Benefit Concert
Featuring Ellis Marsalis, Green Pasture Baptist Church Choir and Others

Concert proceeds to benefit local food access organizations to fight hunger and feed hope in Greater New Orleans
The concert will be held Thursday, October 15 at 8 p.m.
at the Touro Synagogue, 4238 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans.
Tickets are $18 in advance [...]

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Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

May 20th, 2009 by jpollock | 0

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 [...]

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Conference MLK Weekend in New Orleans, January 17-19, 2008

Jan 6th, 2009 by admin | 0

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 [...]

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Toiletry Drive for the New Orleans Women’s Shelter, Jan 16-19

Jan 6th, 2009 by admin | 0

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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JCC Maccabi ArtsFest being held in New Orleans August 2-7, 2009

Jan 6th, 2009 by admin | 0

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 [...]

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Upcoming Events: NOLA YURP Initiative’s Drink for Good & Spirits

Dec 17th, 2008 by admin | 0

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