In May 1963, nineteen members of The Rabbinical Assembly were sent by the Assembly's convention as its delegation to Birmingham, Alabama, during the racial crisis in that city.Jack H Bloom, Rabbi of Congregation Beth Fl, Fairfield, Connecticut, was a member of that delegation.

In May of 2009 he was invited to return to Birmingham, Alabama. Channel 12 interviews him on both his first visit and his return.

Click here to read his article adapted from the paper he presented to the Conference on the Moral Implications of the Rabbinate, held under the auspices of the Herbert H. Lehman Institute of Ethics in the Fall of 1963.

(For a description of that delegation's experiences, see "To Birmingham, and Back," by Andre Ungar, Conservative Judaism, Volume XVIII, No. 1, Fall, 1963.)