Avodah

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At Avodah, we believe that Jewish leaders have the power to help change our country for the better. We train and support Jewish professionals with the tools, knowledge, and networks they need to contribute their skills and passion to advance social justice across the country and deepen the fabric of our diverse Jewish communities.

Avodah’s Jewish Service Corps is an immersive service year program for emerging changemakers ages 21-26 who are passionate about social justice. Jewish Service Corps Members serve directly at local organizations tackling crucial social and economic justice issues like healthcare access, the criminal legal system, housing, and environmental justice at the community level. In addition to serving at their placements, Corps Members live in intentional communal homes and deepen their social justice framework through experiential programming and values-driven community building.

Corps Members graduate with a year of meaningful, on-the-ground job experience and robust professional and personal development, joining our active 1,700+ alumni network of Jewish social justice professionals and activists who will continue to support their future careers and serve as their Jewish community for life.

Testimonials

Being able to meet clients who are some of the most vulnerable people in the city reaffirms and deepens my commitment to their humanity and the need for services that serve and care for them.

- Mica, Avodah Corps Member 2023-24

The ongoing partnership with Avodah has been foundational to the operations of the UNITY Warehouse Program over the past five plus years. We are blessed to have benefited from the dedicated, impassioned volunteers and the engaged network that Avodah offers. I hope it has also been a blessing to the members whom we have had the opportunity to host.

- Joe Heeren-Mueller, UNITY Supervisor