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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.

Yeshiva Social Work Students Visit New Orleans

Dec 9th, 2008 by admin | 0

Students from Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work paid a visit to New Orleans in November.  While here, they spent a day in service with the St. John’s Baptist Church Social Ministry, led by Pastor Bruce Davenport, and visited the Kingsley House, a “resettlement and recovery center” with a mission to “educate children, strengthen [...]

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