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Sharing a meal

Corps members live communally in their Jefferson Avenue house uptown

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Corps members prepare for Purim celebrations by creating masks

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Planting trees in Central City

Rachel Glicksman works with residents to beautify the neighborhood

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Celebrating Chanukah

Corps members welcomed coworkers and community members to their home

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Learning about Bayou Bienvenue

Alum David Eber teaches the group about deforestation in the cypress swamps

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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.

In the News: Financial deficiencies at the Orleans Public Defenders office

Dec 8th, 2008 by admin | 0

Visit the Orleans Public Defenders website. Eliza Baron, a 2008-2009 AVODAH Corps Member, is currently working as a Client Welfare Specialist at the Orleans Public Defenders office.
Public defenders ask New Orleans City Council to plug holes in budget
by Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune
Published: November 20, 2008

Leaders of the Orleans public defenders office are asking the [...]

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