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Meet AVODAH’s New Board Chair: Benetta Mansfield
Benetta Mansfield has served on AVODAH’s national board for three years and will assume the Chair on April 1. We sat down with Benetta to learn a bit more about her. How did you become interested in...
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#weareavodah: Meet Our New Staff
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...
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What’s Possible in Eleven Months
By Gavriela Geller A few months ago, I met a man named Carlos. Although Carlos was a client at the National Immigrant Justice Center, and we had spoken numerous times on the phone, I hadn’t met him in...
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Dealing with Otherness
By Jennifer Ferentz Have you ever been stared at? Last Sunday, my girlfriend and I were on the bus headed to meet up with some friends for dinner when an older gentleman sat down across from us. As he...
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AVODAH Fellowship Expanding to Chicago
Thanks in part to the generous support of the the Crown Family and the Dorot Foundation, we are expanding our AVODAH Fellowship program to Chicago. AVODAH has been working in Chicago since 2006 and we...
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Getting in the Field
By Ari Goodman As part of my AVODAH placement, I am responsible for helping manage Inspiration Café, a meals program for participants of our supportive service programs. I had been staffing Inspiration...
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Intentionality, or How My life Became a Reality TV Show
By Essie Schachar-Hill In the Chicago bayit we often joke about how we could easily be the stars of an MTV reality show. It would be called “The Real World of Avodah,” and the synopsis would be as...
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