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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.

AVODAH Corps Member David Eber recognized in Oregon Press

Jan 20th, 2009 by admin | 1

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. [...]

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Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development on PBS

Dec 12th, 2008 by deber | 1

e2 (squared) is an ongoing PBS series about the economies of being environmentally conscious. With a combination of policy technology and ingenuity. From energy consumption to building efficiency. It chronicles global efforts to solve pressing ecological challenges.
Visit www.e2-series.com and then click ‘webcasts’ at the top of the page. In season three, there is an episode [...]

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AVODAH New Orleans Launch Party, October 19, 2008

Dec 9th, 2008 by admin | 0

Footage of the Launch Party was shot and edited by Rachel Lee, 2008-2009 AVODAH Corps Member. See David Eber’s story for more details about the Launch event.

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AVODAH celebrates New Orleans site launch

Dec 5th, 2008 by admin | 1

Written by David Eber
AVODAH Corps Member, 2008-09

AVODAH is alive and kicking in New Orleans! Just to make it official though we had an AVODAH Launch party.
We held it on October 19th on a wonderfully sunny Sunday afternoon. Guests were in from all over the country, including a contingent from New York.  Most, however, [...]

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Meet the 2008-09 AVODAH New Orleans Corps Members

Nov 7th, 2008 by admin | 3

Orientation Retreat, August 2008

Top row (left to right): David Eber, Ora Nitkin-Kaner, Yaeli Brontein
Middle row: Jenna Pollock, Meredith Grabek, Ariana Kolins, Joshua Lichtman (Program Director for AVODAH New Orleans)
Front row: Rachel Lee, Rebecca Waxman, Eliza Baron

Eliza Baron, from Millburn, NJ, graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst this [...]

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