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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.

In the News: The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center

Dec 8th, 2008 by admin | 0

Visit the GNO Fair Housing Action Center’s website. Rebecca Waxman, a 2008-2009 AVODAH Corps Member, is currently working as a Fair Housing Assistant at the GNO Fair Housing Action Center.
New Hope for the Gulf Coast?
By Susan Sturgis, Facing South: The Online Magazine for the Institute of Southern Studies
Posted: November 19, 2008

More than three years after [...]

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