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Lower 9th Ward
The people of New Orleans need your help. If you, or your group are looking for a Volunteer Expedition, we will organize one for you. For more info, please click the photo above.
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Come Join Us!
 Join a volunteer expedition, it will be unlike any experience you've had. Our custom programs will provide a challenging and empowering social action opportunity. Call us today!
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Devoted to social justice and motivated to give back to society in a practical, compassionate way through volunteer service, advocacy and education, Volunteer Expeditions has had some meaningful successes in its brief life. But we are eager to do so much more, not only in New Orleans but in stricken communities around the world. With your help, we can.
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"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Goethe "Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius |
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Mission to Jewish Jamaica
Learn about the Jamaica behind the brochures. Discover another side to Jamaica where the Jewish community lives and the sparkling blue sea ends. Many children live in poor communities where schools are overpopulated and teachers overworked. Because of this, students need help with reading and other basic subjects. Here's your opportunity to make a difference. If you are yearning for a trip that offers the chance to give a 'gift that keeps on giving', consider Jamaica.
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A "Different" Jamaica
Tour Highlights Include:
- Secure Tour Guide Services - Like a personal friend waiting to welcome you.
- Airport transfer and return
- Accommodations
- Daily breakfast and dinner
- Transfers to volunteer project daily for schools, orphanages and tutoring children with visual disabilities
- Hellshire Beach - an unspoiled and untouched little piece of paradise
- Hillel Academy
- See Devon House, the home of Jamaica's first black millionaire
- Go shopping and take back some Jamaican treasures
- Services at Shaare Shalom Synagogue
Optional tour available to Dunn's River Falls
Package Cost - Double/ Triple Occupancy
5 Nights/6 Days $695
Minimum 10 persons per group, ages 14+
Trips now available
Not included: airfare, entrance fees to attractions, and lunch
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Jewish Jamaica - Shaare Shalom
 With the influx of Jews to Jamaica in the 17th century, multiple synagogues were constructed across the island in such cities as: Montego Bay, Spanish Town, Port Royal, and Kingston. Originally, two synagogues were built in Spanish Town, the Sephardi K.K. Neveh Shalom (Habitation of Peace) consecrated in 1704, and the Ashkenazi K.K. Mikveh Yisrael (Hope of Israel) erected in 1796. These two congregations would later merge as Jews began to migrate from Spanish Town to Kingston, the new capital city.
As in Spanish Town, two congregations (Sephardi and Ashkenazi) existed in Kingston. Initial attempts to form a merger were unsuccessful. The United Congregation of Israelites constructed the original Shaare Shalom synagogue in 1885, but an earthquake destroyed it. The building was reconstructed by the Henriques Brothers in 1912 and this structure still stands today.
The synagogue can accommodate more than 600 persons for services in its sanctuary. Its sanctuary floor is covered in sand (from the Sephardi custom) to remind persons of the time when Jews covered their floors with sand to muffle the sound of their prayers during the Inquisition.
Most recently, Shaare Shalom Synagogue welcomed it's first full time rabbi in over forty years!
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Contact us if you have any questions or want to know more about us.
Sincerely,
Patricia Vile
Volunteer Expeditions
312-520-4100
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