By Ilana Levinson Every year at Passover, Jewish communities come together to commemorate, and celebrate our liberation. It is our duty on Passover to remember with intention, a history plagued with oppression- from our enslavement in Egypt to our endurance … Continue reading
By Talia Baurer On Simchat Torah, the celebration of finishing the year-long reading of the Five Books of Moses and of starting anew, I sit with fellow Avodahniks in the pews of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST), a synagogue that … Continue reading
By Daniel Meeter One day last June, two Christian pastors, my wife and myself, sat down for dinner with about a dozen AVODAH Corps Members at their common residence in Flatbush. It was such a simple thing, just a bunch of … Continue reading
By Elana Cohn We recently read parashat Kedoshim, which gave us a lot of the big pillars of Jewish law, the classics. Honor thy father and mother. Do not worship false gods. Don’t place a stumbling block before the blind, … Continue reading
Over the past few weeks, we’ve had a number of exciting additions to AVODAH’s staff. Read on to learn about these new members of our team. Kira Manso Brown is the Executive and Program Assistant in our New York office. She has found … Continue reading
In our second installment of profiles about our participants, we’re pleased to introduce you to Rebecca Manning, one of our New York corps members: Tell us about the work that you’re doing at your placement: I work at a non-profit in … Continue reading
We’ve been conducting brief interviews with some of our current corps members and Fellows to give you the opportunity to get to know them and their work. Our first installment features Shira Olson, one of our New York Corps members. … Continue reading
By Shana Bloom The AVODAH Fellowship created a fundamental “paradigm shift” in the ways I relate to and understand myself within the context of a Jewish social justice community. It has also impacted my professional life by deepening my understanding … Continue reading
By Sarra Alpert When we first started to envision AVODAH’s expansion through the Fellowship, I was certainly excited by the idea that more people would have the opportunity to experience the kind of justice-driven, intentional, challenging-yet-supportive, creatively Jewishly engaged, critically … Continue reading
1. World cuisines regularly appear on your Shabbat menu. 2. Every time there are leftovers at an event the organizer tries to give them to you because they think you need the food. 3. You’ve had a house meeting just to plan … Continue reading