As you may know, today the Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s Muslim Ban. This discriminatory executive order violates our core values as Jews: standing by refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants. Unfortunately, as Jews, we are well aware of the consequences … Continue reading
In a country that seeks to provide freedom and equality for all citizens, why are we as men, not doing what we can to help our sisters, mothers, and daughters provide the care they need? What is our responsibility as men to help fund abortions for those in need? 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
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