High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Milton Louis Grafman (April 21, 1907 - May 30, 1995), an American rabbi who led Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham, Alabama from 1941 until his retirement in 1975; he then served as Rabbi Emeritus from 1975 until his death in 1995. He was one of eight ministerial signers of a public statement to which Martin Luther King, Jr. responded in his Letter from Birmingham Jail.