Avodah Named One of Chicago’s Top 20 Innovative Jewish Organizations Thirteenth Annual Slingshot Guide Highlights the Best of the Thriving Jewish Nonprofit World CHICAGO, NEW YORK – Avodah has been named one of Chicago’s top 20 innovative Jewish organizations in … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
“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