Memory Lane

• Birmingham Days 1963
• Birmingham Days 1963 AARP Version 2005
• Thank You Columbia
• Three Days in Moldavia
• Camp Massad -The Place that Made Me the Jew I Am
• Gematria on the New Address of the CCAR
• Friendliness in SW Connecticut. A Letter to the NY Times
• Groundbreaking Ceremony of Cong. Beth El, Fairfield. CT 1961
• Haazinu-My Bar Mitzvah 50 Years Later
• How it was that I had lunch with President Harry S. Truman, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Professor Louis Finkelstein and watched aghast as Professor Saul Lieberman drank his tea through a sugar cube.
• Leeds Lead Leads to Prize-A Frumusica, Romania Tale
• A Refusenik Odyssey-10 Days in the USSR
• We Have Created Our Clergy and They Are Us
• Religion is Religion & Visceral is Visceral
• The Family Lichtenstein-My Parents Greatest Mitzvah
• Stand Columbia

Rabbi’s Life and Work

• 10 Commandments for Rabbis
• By Power Vested in Me-Symbolic Exemplarhood & The Pulpit Rabbi
• By Power Vested in Me-Conservative Judaism 1998
• Communication Strategies for the Rabbinate
• D’var Torah at Rabbinical Assembly Convention 1965
• Dynamics of the Rabbinate-Rabbinical Assembly Convention 1980
• We Have Created Our Rabbis and They Are Us-Op Ed in the Jewish Week 7/8/03
• Rabbinic Symbolic Exemplarhood as a Healing Source
• Response at Honorary Doctor of Divinity March 14, 2001
• The Rabbi and Retirement
• The Language of Healing & Curing
• The Power to Name
• The Seasons of a Rabbi-Dilemmas & Suggestions for Training
• Tribute to Rabbi Joseph Glaser
• Working With Difficult People
• Recovery in Relationship
• Libretto For the High Holy Days
• Stand Columbia

Cantor’s Life and Work

• Cantors Assembly May 10,1976
• Compassion, Sensitivity and Understanding; The Hazzan as Pastor. May 17 1978
• Some Aspects of Life as Wife of a Hazzan
• The Cantor’s Task

Material for Life Cycle Events

• Prayer for Ill Child
• Prayer Before Surgery
• Prayer After Surgery
• Prayer for Physical Healing
• Birchat Hagomel Upon Escaping Life Threatening Danger
• Alternate Shevah B’rachot at A Wedding
• The Eulogy as a Tool in Grief Work Pastoral Psychology 1970
• Checklist for Preparing a Eulogy
• Using the term Covenant Name at Brit, Bar Mitzvah etc

Brit Bat

• B’rit Bat.Elle Lev Faiga (my granddaughter)
• B’rit Bat for Synagogue 1
• B’rit Bat for Synagogue 2
• B’rit Bat for Synagogue 3
• B’rit Bat at Home

Bar-Bat Mitzvah

• We Have a Bar/Bat Mitzvah Problem On Our Hands
• Bar/Bat Mitzvahed is a Verb
• The Bar-Bat Mitzvah D’var Torah-A Personal Opinion
• A Bar/Bat Mitzvah Initiation Ceremony

Biblical Gleanings

• Amalek and Us-Jewish Relational Thinking and a Difficult Text
• Being Blessed is Not Enough
• Bless Me Also—Pharoah’s Plea
• Jonah-An Understanding
• Shalshelet-A Trope for Hesitation

Assorted Writings

• Pursuing Tzelem Elohim
• Hide and Seek- On Teaching God to Be A Better Exemplar
• Is Prayer Book Revision Enough The Reconstructionist 1962
• Psychotherapy and Judaism Today
• The City in Rabbinic Thought
• The Silent Modim-Modim D’Rabanan
• Witnessing Naming and Blessing for Walking in Two Worlds
• The Minuteman One Finds God Wherever One lets God In   
• We Are All of Each of Us
• T’shuvah CCAR Journal
• Law, Halakhah and the Emperor’s New Clothes

Romanian Roots & Genealogy

Jack H Bloom’s New Revised Translations from Pinkas HaKehillot 

• Botosani-(Moldavia) Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania Vol 1.New Revised Translation
• Frumusica--(Moldavia) Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania Vol 1.New Revised Translation
• Galati (Moldavia) Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania Vol 1.New Revised Translation
• Harlau (Moldavia) Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania Vol 1.New Revised Translation
• Husi (Moldavia) Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania Vol 1.New Revised Translation
• Iasi (Moldavia) Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania Vol 1.New Revised Translation
• Negresti (Moldavia) Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania Vol 1.New Revised Translation
• PodulIloaiei (Moldavia) Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania Vol 1.New Revised Translation
• Pungesti (Moldavia) Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania Vol 1.New Revised Translation
• Roman(Moldavia) Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania Vol 1.New Revised Translation
• Vasuli (Moldavia) Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania Vol 1.New Revised Translation

Birth Marriage and Death Records of Extended Family

• Romanian State Archives in Iasi
• Romanian State Archives in Botosani
• Romanian State Archives in Suceava
• Records of the Harlau Cemetery

Extended Family Bloom/Segal/Catz 

• Bloom Family Tree*
• Segal Family Tree*
• Bloom-Catz-Segal Family Histories*
• Catz Family Tree*
• Clara Beraru and Our Family
• Ephraim Catz –Samuel Bloom’s First Cousin
• Ephraim Catz-The First Pioneer of Haifa Bay
• Iris & Joe Kaplan
• Morris & Tily Bloom
• Pincu & Ita Blum
• Sam & Sally Bloom
• Solomon Bloom

*For privacy and security reasons, please email me to get permission to access the following articles

Birth & Death Records

• David Aronovici.1891
• Ghidale Zelingher d.1903
• Lea Sigal d.1882
• Adele Bloom b.1907
• Avram Nuta Bloom d.1885
• Catz & Sibs b.1879-82
• Ella Bloom b.1911
• Esther (Ernestina) Blum b.1904
• Gymant Info 11-98
• Gymant Info 6-99
• Haim Zehingher d.1986
• Iancu (Yaakov) Sigal b.1889
• Illegitimate Estra b.1894
• Iris (Ida) Bloom b.1906
• Ita Aronovici b.1891
• Itic Soil Sigal b.1883
• Itic Soil Sigal d.1884
• Lea Blum b.1883
• Mendel Aronovici d.1889
• Moisa Blum b.1891
• Moise Leib Sigal_Lea
• Moise Leib Sigal_Malia 
• Moishe Blum d.1879
• Moisi Blum d.1889
• Mose Leib Blum b.1888
• Nahum Sura Zelingher Marriage
• Nha Sigal b.1888
• Nha Sigal d.1881
• Photo captions
• Rose Sigal (Moskowitz)b.1889
• Ruhla Aronovici b.1890
• Rhula David Aronovici d.1890
• Samuel Bloom b.1893
• Sarah (Sally) Sigal.1895
• Seindla (Jenny) Siga 1890
• Sloim Solomon Blum b.1886
• Solomom Bloom Prof b.1903
• Strul Blum b.1890
• Strul Blum d.1890
• Sura Blum d.1891
• Sura Zelingher b.1867
• Udel Blum b.1886
• Various Sigal(s) very doubtful
• Zalman (Sam) Bloom b.1903

Writings by Sol (Ace} Bloom- My Beloved Older Brother

• Sol (Ace) Bloom
• The Marine Carp and Cousin Catz
• Paris and the Ketubah
• Events with Cousin Catz & Family (1946-48)
• The Blooms at Kibbutz Gvat-Newlywed Idealists
• The Blooms at Kibbutz Gvat-Alone in Communal Life
• It Happened on the way to Sabena
• Ace’s Letter Re the-“lamed heh “-The martyred 35 Who Were  Martyred On the Way to Hebron