The article discusses the role of rabbis during the Selma civil rights movement, focusing on Abraham Joshua Heschel's support for the cause alongside other lesser-known figures such as John Doar, Bayard Rustin, and Amelia Boynton.

Elijah Schulman, a young bar mitzvah boy from Bethesda, MD, is planning to hold his bar mitzvah at a struggling synagogue, Mishkan Israel, in Selma, Ala., as a way to help the synagogue in need.