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Avodah Institute for Social Change Partners with Foundation for Jewish Camp
Courtney Landy named JFS Volunteer of the Month
Jewish Life updates mission to reflect greater commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
Avodah Announces Voluntary Recognition of Newly Formed Union
Avodah announces 2022 Justice Fellowship cohort
A new project aims to help Jewish groups do social justice better
Avodah Launches New “Institute for Social Change” with Debut Cohort of Hillel Leaders
Groups that bring young Jews together learn lessons from keeping them apart
Avodah Service Corps Officially Launches in San Diego October 4, 2021 | San Diego Jewish Journal
Avodah New Orleans members complete challenging year of service August 7, 2021 | Southern Jewish Life
Jews need to do better if they’re to get serious about fighting racism, activists say June 28, 2021 | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Spielberg donates Genesis Prize money to justice nonprofits March 25, 2021 | The Seattle Times
KC native discusses racial resentment, policy & life expectancy in his book “Dying Of Whiteness” February 18, 2021 | The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle
Avodah brings social justice to community during pandemic January 28, 2021 | The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle
Avodah launches the JOC Bayit, a Service Corps for Jews of Color March 3, 2021 | Avodah
The first blind female rabbi is making sure she won’t be the last February 18, 2021 | The Forward
Avodah Alum and Sisters Challah Baking Business Raises $50,000 for Anti-Racism Organizations February 18, 2021 | CBS News
Portlander Hayler Meyerhoff is Doing Social Justice Work in New Orleans February 3, 2021 | Oregon Jewish Life
Social Justice in Higher Education November 16, 2020 | eJewish Philanthropy
Groups that were created to bring young Jews together are learning some lessons from keeping them apart November 4, 2020 | Washington Jewish Week
Dani Levine leads local and national Avodah effort October 29, 2020 | Crescent City Jewish News
A Letter from Justice Ginsburg September 24, 2020 | San Diego Jewish World
If Not Now, When? Ahead of High Holidays Jewish Organizations Must Strive for Racial Equity and Inclusion September 16, 2020 | eJewish Philanthropy
Majority of American Jewish in Full Page New York Times Ad: “Unequivocally: Black Lives Matter” August 28, 2020 | Medium
L.A. Jews for Black Lives Hold Tisha B’Av Protest Outside Mayer Eric Garcetti’s home July 30, 2020 | Jewish Journal
Deuteronomy, midrashim, and current police practice July 7, 2020 | San Diego Jewish World
Introspective JFS panel considers racism June 10, 2020 | San Diego Jewish World
Black Jews to white Jews: Change your relationship with police June 3, 2020 | The Forward
Jews of Color, Covid-19, Civil Unrest — An Argument for Inclusion June 2, 2020 | Medium
Fate of DACA Still Uncertain May 15, 2020 | Voice of America (VOA)
This Jewish medical student is helping reduce racial disparities in coronavirus testing May 14, 2020 | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Dispatch from Avodah Alumna and Brooklyn ER Nurse in the Time of COVID May 5, 2020 | University of Washington
Caring For Our Most Vulnerable Featuring Avodah Founder Rabbi David Rosenn and Alumna Lara Pukatch April 14, 2020 | The Forward
Avodah New Orleans Rabbi Delivers Fly-Over Passover Blessings | April 10, 2020 | The Times Picayune
Group Behind Jewish Service Corps Adds San Diego Branch with Aid of Jewish Family Service | January 21, 2021 | Times of San Diego
Exploring the Future of Alumni | May 1, 2019 | eJewish Philanthropy
Avodah Alums Debut at New Orleans Jazz Fest | April 27, 2019 | Off Beat Magazine
Expressing Our Judaism Through Social Justice in 2019 | April 20, 2019 | The Jewish Theological Seminary
Why Passover’s stories of resistance and redemption resonate so strongly today | April 19, 2019 | The Washington Post
8 Practical Tips on How to Lead a Progressive Seder This Year | April 17, 2019 | The Forward
Conversations with the Inspiring Rachel Wasserman | April 16, 2019 | The Washington Post
What I’ve Learned from 7 Months of Serving Homeless and House-Insecure Women in DC | March 26, 2019 | Catalogue for Philanthropy, Greater Washington
Who decides when we do — and don’t — call out anti-Semitism? | March 8, 2019 | The Washington Post
Inclusion is Not an Investment, Rabbi Says | February 27, 2019 | Washington Jewish Week
Jewish Community Unites to Support Those Affected by Government Shutdown | January 31, 2019 | The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle
Counting the Homeless, Block by Block | January 30, 2019 | Washington Jewish Week
‘We were never taught’: Young Jews in the U.S. encounter anti-Semitism firsthand | November 4, 2018 | The Washington Post
Service Corps Ready for Next Steps | August 1, 2018 | Washington Jewish Week
How One Jewish Woman Is Changing the World – With One Jar of Trash | July 26, 2019 | The Forward
A First Apartment, With (Almost) Zero Waste | July 23, 2018 | The New York Times
Jewish Groups Take on Family Separation | July 11, 2018 | Moment Magazine
Jews and Muslims Unite in New York to Protest Trump’s Travel Ban | June 27, 2018 | Haaretz
The Jewish Community Must Oppose Trump’s Ban | June 26, 2018 | The Forward
Avodah Celebrates 10 Years in New Orleans | June 5, 2018 | Southern Jewish Life Magazine
At Community Hearing in Maryland, Activists Speak Out for Immigrants | May 5, 2018 | HIAS
Top Donors to Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans Celebrated at Special Event | April 19, 2018 | Nola.com
Brooklyn Synagogue Pulls its Money Out of Chase Bank to Promote Climate Change. Will Others Follow Suit? | April 17, 2018 | Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
The Torah Case for Reparations | March 29, 2018 | The Medium
‘Moth’-Like Storytelling Event in Crown Heights Brings Jews, Muslims Together | March 27, 2018 | The New York Jewish Week
Study Finds Millennials Charting Their Own Course | February 28, 2018 | Washington Jewish Week
This Year, We Are All Esther in America’s Own Purim Story | February 26, 2018 | The Washington Post
This Is a #MeToo Story. But It Is Not a Story About Sexual Harassment or Assault | February 2, 2018 | eJewish Philanthropy
You Should Know…Rebecca Cooper | January 19, 2018 | Washington Jewish Week
Why Ending Cash Bail Is A Jewish Issue | January 8, 2018 | The Forward
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Mariska Hargitay and Other Well-Known New Yorkers Give. Here’s Why. | November 28, 2017 | The New York Times
Charlottesville as a Reminder | August 25, 2017 | Detroit Jewish News
Why Do White Supremacists Hate Jews? Because We Can Fight Them. | August 17, 2017 | The Chicago Tribune
Getting Our Racial Justice House in Order | June 15, 2017 | eJewish Philanthropy
Why I’m Sending My Jewish Children to a School with Few White Students | May 18, 2017 | The Forward
Remembering Deborah Cotton, Who Lived To Forgive The Men Who Took Her Life | May 9, 2017 | The Forward
Trump’s Washington Reminds This Rabbi of Modern-Day Sodom | April 27, 2017 | The Forward
YMCA is proud of its ‘Fab Five’ group of volunteers | February 18, 2017 | The Times Picayune
I’m a rabbi who was arrested protesting Trump’s travel ban. It was a holy act. | February 9, 2017 | The Washington Post
36 Under 36: Rabbi Alana Alpert | January 10, 2017 | Detroit Jewish News
Avodah Receives Grant from The Covenant Foundation | January 4, 2017 | eJewish Philanthropy
Forbes 30 under 30: Avodah Alumna Rachel Sumekh, 25, Founder, Swipe Out Hunger | 2017 | Forbes 30 under 30: Social Entrepreneurs
What the Hanukkah story teaches us about the Trump administration | December 23, 2016 | The Washington Post
Avodah Alumna Rachel Sumekh featured in ‘Food Pantries Address a Growing Hunger Problem at Collegess’ | June 22, 2016 | New York Times
New Role: Detroit Roots Inform Cheryl Cook, Avodah’s Director | 2015| Detroit Jewish News
Top Execs Installed This Year at the JCC Association and Avodah Are JTS Alumni | Fall 2015 | JTS/Alumni Newsletter
Reisterstown Native Refines Her Path Through Avodah | August 6, 2015 | Baltimore Jewish Times
The Change-theWorld Shabbat Dinner | May 17, 2015 | The Forward
Living Together With a Purpose | Spring 2015 | Living Together With a Purpose
Work of the Spirit | May 14, 2014 | Washington Jewish Week
Avodah Executive Director Makes Stop Here | January 17, 2014 | The Best of the Crescent City Jewish News
Ruth Messinger and Marilyn Sneiderman Are Odd Couple of Jewish Social Justice | November 5, 2013 | The Forward
Speaking Up for the Poor | September 9, 2013 | The Jewish Week
One City, Many Voices: Why Detroit? | May 16, 2012 | Detroit Jewish News
170 Jewish Social Justice Leaders to Meet With Obama Administration | July 27, 2011 | Jewish Social Justice Roundtable
Living Tradition | June 14, 2011 | The Local
The Big Easy’s Big Jewish Comeback | May 4, 2011 | The Forward
Marilyn Sneiderman joins the 14% of Jewish Women Leaders | October 11, 2010 | Zeek
Recent grads spend year fighting urban poverty | December 9, 2009 | New Jersey Jewish News
Jewish roots tapped in fight for social justice | September 6, 2009 | The Times Picayune
The Jewish hot spots for the inauguration | January 13, 2009 | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
City Team Ramps Up | November 13, 2008 | The Forward
