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Click here to watch Jack H Bloom interviewed on News Channel 12 about his participation in the Civil Rights Movement in 1963 in Birmingham Alabama, with the Reverend Martin Luther King. In March 2009,as one of the “luminaries” who had been with Dr. King, he was invited to redo the marches in both Birmingham and Selma by joining the 9th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage, (38 Congressmen) organized by The Faith & Politics Institute.

Memory Lane

• Birmingham-Revisted 2009
• 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

• What God Can Learn from Us-Winter 2008
• 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
• What is a bris or bris bat all about
• Stress,Criticism,Conflict
• Symbolic X for Reform
• Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic
• Jacob-The Impaired Blessor

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

• Talk About Names
• Bar/Bat Mitzvahed and Married as Experiential Verbs
• Book Review in Conservative Judaism:The Psychological Roots of Religious Belief: Searching for Angels and the Parent God, by C.J. Faber
• Pursuing Tzelem Elohim
• Hide and Seek- On Teaching God to Be A Better Exemplar-Spring 2006
• 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
• Speech Delivered to Convention of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH CHAPLAINS, Boston Mass. 1995
• Chosenness and Inequality
• Book Review in Conservative Judaism
• Yahrzeit for my father
• Keynote Speech at the Convention of The Central Conference of
  American Rabbis San Francisco 1976
• Elohai,Netzor
• Police Chief, Joseph “Bud” Sambrook
• Judith Steiber
• Graduation Speech 1968
• Rabbi's Make a Difference (Postscripts)
• On Mitzvah

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