We would love to have you join us at the Thirteenth Annual Commemoration of the largest mass arrest of Rabbis in US History that will take place outdoors at the St. Johns County Jail Annex, 4025 Lewis Speedway, St. Augustine, Florida 32084 , at 12 noon, Thursday, June 18th. This 45 minute event sponsored by the St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society, is open to the public, is free and all are welcome. 

On June 18, 1964, 16 Rabbis and a Reform Jewish administrator, in St. Augustine at the request of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., were arrested and held in the St. Johns County Jail. Overnight, they wrote a letter entitled “Why We Went to St. Augustine” that will be read as part of the commemoration.