8 Ways to Grow Your Light This Hanukkah
The world can feel pretty dark lately. Here are eight practices to help grow your light within and ignite the sparks of justice during Hanukkah. Continue reading
12th Dec, 2017
The world can feel pretty dark lately. Here are eight practices to help grow your light within and ignite the sparks of justice during Hanukkah. Continue reading
12th Dec, 2017
Avodah was featured in The New York Times on #GivingTuesday as one of several prominent organizations well-known New Yorkers are giving to this holiday season. Avodah is listed fourth in the article (under Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pick and a … Continue reading
29th Nov, 2017
Before heading home to Texas for Thanksgiving, Avodah Jewish Service Corps Member Dena Lipper will be spending the holiday with Brooklyn’s food-insecure families at Neighbors Together, a food bank and community services nonprofit. During her service year, Dena works with … Continue reading
22nd Nov, 2017
OCTOBER 19, 2017, KANSAS CITY, KS — Avodah, the leading organization devoted to strengthening the Jewish community’s fight against poverty in the United States, is taking its national Avodah Justice Fellowship to America’s heartland. Starting this winter, Avodah will launch … Continue reading
19th Oct, 2017
As American Jews, we know what can happen when a single group of people are targeted because of their religion. That is why on October 18, 2017, the day a ban on immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries goes into effect, … Continue reading
16th Oct, 2017
“The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the stranger as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”-Leviticus 19:34 The … Continue reading
19th Sep, 2017
Every day during this month of Elul, we blow the shofar as a wake-up call to our hearts and minds. It’s our reminder to take an honest self-evaluation, a real heshbon hanefesh, an accounting of the soul, so that … Continue reading
7th Sep, 2017
It’s back to school season and this time of year, we’re thinking a lot about equal access to quality education. Whether the result of poorly-funded schools or outside factors such as unstable housing and food insecurity, students from low-income families … Continue reading
5th Sep, 2017