Shabbat Morning Service 9:15 am Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary

Early Morning Shabbat Service 6:30 am Homestead Hebrew Chapel

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Havdalah 5:43 p.m.

Shabbat Shalom! 18 Heshvan, 5780

This week’s parashah is Vayera.

Sunday, 11/17 ~ 19 Heshvan

8:00 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 10:00 am New Members Welcoming, Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary 2:00 pm Special Screening - Ben Gurion Epilogue, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 8:30 pm Online Parashah Study Group - Textual, Zoom Video Call

Monday, 11/18 ~ 20 Heshvan

7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:15 am Talmud Study, Lehman Center 6:00 pm BSUSY Lounge, Shear Youth Lounge 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:15 pm Latin Cardio, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 7:30 pm Comedy Tonight Volunteer Meeting, Eisner Commons

Tuesday, 11/19 ~ 21 Heshvan

7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 4:15 pm J-JEP, Beth Shalom Classrooms 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 pm Board of Trustees Meeting, Zweig Library 7:30 pm Comedy Tonight Committee Meeting, Lehman Center 8:30 pm Online Parashah Study Group, Zoom Video Call

Wednesday, 11/20 ~ 22 Heshvan 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 11:00 am Life and Text: Weekly Parashah Study, Lehman Center 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel

Thursday, 11/21 ~ 23 Heshvan

7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 4:15 pm J-JEP, Beth Shalom Classrooms 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 pm Derekh Limmud Committee Meeting, Zweig Library 7:30 pm Religious Services Committee Meeting, Lehman Center

Friday, 11/22 ~ 24 Heshvan Candle lighting 4:39 pm

7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 6:00 pm Hod veHadar Instrumental Kabbalat Shabbat, Weinberg Pavilion

Saturday, 11/23 ~ 25 Heshvan Havdalah 5:38 pm

6:30 am Early Morning Shabbat Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:30 am Shabbat Morning Service, Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary 10:00 am Youth Tefillah, Meet in Shear Youth Lounge, then to respective services 12:15 pm Congregational Kiddush, Eisner Commons 4:10 pm Minhah, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 4:35 pm Se’udah Shelishit, in the Eisner Commons 5:20 pm Ma’ariv, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 7:00 pm COMEDY TONIGHT!, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom

ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH

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THE WEEK AT A GLANCE

FOR THE WEEK OF NOV. 16 - 22, 2019 18 - 24 HESHVAN, 5780 Yahrzeits

Richard Adelson Max A. Antis Edith S. Averbach Louis Azen William Berkman Howard Bernstein Anne Lillian Bradlin Lena Coblitz James Cohen Amos Comay Jacquilin Robbins Craig Bernard Davidson Hillel Davidson Jack N. Davis Sam Diamond Shirley Farkas Mae Faust Ben Feldman Emery J. Feldman Joseph Feldman

Joyce Fienberg Lillian Firestone Bella R. Fox Harry E. Frankston Celia G. Freedman Allen Garfinkel Ida S. Glassner Chaim Gorodetsky Richard Gottfried Doris Graff Morris Greenberg David Greenwald Barney J. Grossman Elizabeth Gusky Morris O. Guttman Clara Perer Haffner Lillian W. Halpern Sophie Hausman Arnold Hecht Robert Hecht

Rose Hoffman Arthur C. Jacobs Rosalind Kantrowitz Samuel S. Katz Morris Kline Phillip Kramer Seymoure Krause Morris Leiner Anna Roth Levitan Rose Lieberman Florence Liepack Samuel Malitovsky Kate Mallinger Rose Mallinger Saul D. Mallinger Anne Marmins Eva R. Mars Leon Maysels Jack Mckenzie Freda Miller

Ruth Naimark Beatrice Neustein David Newman Morris A. Paul Tessie Plotkin Jerry Rabinowitz Joseph Reck Sidney Rice Sidney Roberts Anna Rom Bessie L Rosen Irwin Rosen Richard S. Rosenfeld Elsie Rosenshine Bertha Rosenthal Cecil Rosenthal David Rosenthal Maida Rubenstein Rose R. Saltzburg Pearl Salz

Jack Schutte Mary Selekman Schutte Ann Schwartz Robert Selker David H. Shikora Ferne Shire Morris Silver Bernice Simon Sylvan Simon Fanny Spokane Daniel Stein Rose Stern Harry Tepper Melvin Wax Bessie Weiss Barbara Younger Irving Younger Joseph Younger Louis Zweig

5915 BEACON STREET ° PITTSBURGH, PA 15217 ° 412.421.2288 ° BETHSHALOMPGH.ORG

Please refrain from using electronic devices in the

synagogue during Shabbat and holidays. Thank you.

The following Yahrzeits will be observed today and in the coming week. This list comprises those dear departed for whom there are dedicated plaques in our praying spaces, and those for whom contributions have been made to have their names listed here.

Youth Services

Saturday

10:00-10:30 am - Meet in the Shear Youth Lounge.

Toddler - Pre-K with Manny Theiner 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Hoffman & Zweig Libraries, 3rd floor

Mini-Minyan, Pre-K - 2nd Grade Youth Tefillah

11:15 am - 12:00 pm Homestead Hebrew Chapel, 2nd floor

3rd - 5th Grade Youth Tefillah 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Youth Lounge, 4th floor

Friday, November 15, 2019

Candle lighting 4:44 p.m.

Teen-Led Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm Helfant Chapel

Minhah 4:15 pm Homestead Hebrew Chapel

Se’udah Shelishit, sponsored by anonymous in memory of The Eleven (z”l) 4:40 pm

Eisner Commons

Ma’ariv 5:25 pm Homestead Hebrew Chapel

Congregational K iddush Luncheon, co-sponsored by the Berliner/Drucker/Reznick family in honor of the birth and naming of their grand-daughter Lillian Rita Berliner, and by Rich & Helen Feder in honor of their new granddaughter Naomi Leah Bobb 12:15 pm

Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom

The Rabbi’s Assistant answers questions that someone might be too shy to ask.

What Is Yizkor?

Yizkor is our public observance of the loss of a loved one. The word yizkor (ִיְזּכֹור - literally, “may He remem-ber”) is our calling upon God to remember the souls of our lost loved ones.

Generally we have a Yizkor service four times a year - on Yom Kippur, the eighth day of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret), the last day of Passover, and the second day of Shavu’ot, amounting to once per festival plus once on the High Holidays. (In Israel it is similar, with some on different days.) It is thought that the Ashkenazi custom of reciting Y izkor on the festivals dates to the era of the Crusades, when so many communities were being massacred. Prior to that, the Midrash Tanchuma (composed in Talmudic Babylon/Italy/Israel around 500-800 CE) cites the custom of remembering the departed and pledging charity on their behalf on Yom Kippur.

Those who have lost a parent or other loved one participate in the Yizkor service. (Some authorities hold that dur-ing the first year after the death of the person, one would not participate; others see no reason not to do so.) There is a negative and detrimental old-fashioned non-rabbinic custom that one should not remain in the room during the Yizkor service if one’s parents are still alive, lest they die within the year. Your correspondent (who said Yizkor for her brother while her parents were alive) has long opined this was created and put forth by a teenager who wished instead to roam the building rather than stay in services.

Yizkor often begins with opening readings, sometimes including Psalm 91, leading into the main portion in which first we individually ask God to remember our loved ones, offering the quid pro quō of giving charity so God will bind the loved ones’ souls in the bonds of life eternal. This usually is followed by the congregation recalling the six million who perished in the Holocaust and various other victims of horrible multiple deaths, culminating with the E־l Malei Rahamim (Rabbi Daniel Yolkut of Poale Zedeck created a fine new version for The Eleven), which may be followed by yet another mass-murder prayer, the Av HaRahamim (Ancestor of Mercies) which eulogizes communities destroyed in the 1096 Crusades. There may then be a recitation or chanting of Psalm 23.

Yizkor candles, usually in a tall glass, may be lit at home for any day containing a Yizkor service. And many com-munities for many centuries have created books of remembrance for these occasions. The books, sometimes the only remnant of a community, have become a treasure trove for genealogists. Here’s a tip of our hat to Aviva Lubowsky and her team who create Beth Shalom’s Book of Remembrance.

We look forward to your questions. We have these columns online at http://bethshalompgh.org/ive-always-wondered/ .

Have You Moved Recently? Will You Be Moving?

If you have changed your address or are planning to do so, please notify the Beth Shalom office of your new address.

Rabbi Adelson joins the Officers and Trustees in welcoming all members and guests to our services. We look forward to seeing you again soon.

All are welcome to the congregational kiddush luncheon immediately following services in the Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom, co-sponsored by the Berliner/Drucker/Reznick family in honor of the birth and naming of their granddaughter

Lillian Rita Berliner and by Rich & Helen Feder in honor of their new granddaughter.

This week’s Se’udah Shelishit will be sponsored by anonymous, in memory of The Eleven (z”l).

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

SHABBAT SHALOM

Kiddush Sponsorship

Celebrating a simhah or honoring the memory of a loved one? To sponsor a catered Kiddush, contact Michelle Vines, at 412-421-2288 x113, or catering1@bethshalompgh.org

Se’udah Shelishit / Third Shabbat Meal

Every Shabbat afternoon from Oct. 19 until Pesah, we dine together at se’udah shelishit (the third Shabbat meal). Free to attend; all are welcome. We meet in the Eisner Commons, starting one and a half hours before

havdalah time (check this Bulletin or the website for the schedule). We are seeking sponsors, please!

We still need sponsors for November 23.

To sponsor the a third meal, please contact Ira Frank: 412-281-4064 or natfabira@juno.com

LOCATING THE MOST ACCESSIBLE ENTRANCE

Palkovitz Lobby, Helfant Chapel, ELC, Front Offices: Enter at Beacon Street (or Rear Parking Lot Entrance with key) Eisner Commons, Homestead Hebrew Chapel: Enter at Beacon Street, take elevator to 2nd floor Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary: Enter at Beacon Street, take elevator to 3rd floor Shear Youth Lounge, Rice Auditorium: Enter at Beacon Street, take elevator to 4th floor Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom: Enter at Shady Avenue

Volunteer to Help with Kiddush! Really, we need YOU!

Please volunteer to help make the Kiddush - shopping, food prep, setup, cleanup, everything in between. Please contact Michelle Vines, at 412-421-2288 x113, or catering1@bethshalompgh.org.

The Religious Services Committee is looking for a few (more) good people to lead services! If you would like to join our team of leaders or would like to learn how to lead, please

contact Sheldon Catz at sheldoncatz50@gmail.com.

Shirley Lyon Zionts (mother), Nancy Zionts (wife), daughters Allison and Danielle, siblings Harry (Laurie) Zionts and Gail (Micha) Raz and all family and friends on the passing of Leon Zionts (z”l) on November 10th.

Condolences to

Have you or your guest lost something in the shul? Are you missing something important? Please call our Receptionist for general articles, at 412-421-2288 x114.

OUR LEADERSHIP Clergy Rabbi Seth Adelson, Ext. 115 Rabbi Mark Staitman, Rabbinic Scholar Rabbi Jeremy Markiz, Director of Derekh and Y outh Tefillah, Ext. 111

Executive Officers Deborah Firestone, President, Ext. 106 Kate Rothstein, Executive V ice President Alan Kopolow, Vice President Jordan Fischbach, Vice President Fred Newman, Treasurer Dan Eisner, Secretary David Horvitz, Past President

Staff Ken Turkewitz, Interim Executive Director, Ext. 226 Dale Caprara, Controller, Ext. 109 Anthony Colaizzi, Communications & Design Manager, Ext. 108 Audrey Glickman, Rabbi’s Assistant, Ext. 112 Rabbi Larry Freedman, J-JEP Director, Ext. 323 Kate Kim, Assistant J-JEP Director, Ext. 323 Hilary Yeckel, Early Learning Center Director, Ext. 390 Rosie Valdez, ELC Administrator Marissa Tait, Director of Y outh Programming, Ext. 463 Ethan Einhorn, Kadima Y outh Advisor Adi Kadosh, BSUSY Youth Advisor Michelle Vines, Events Coordinator, Ext. 113 Lonnie Wolf, Cemetery Director, Ext. 293 Tika Bonner, Receptionist, Ext. 114

Auxiliary Presidents Ira Frank, Men’s Club Judy Kornblith Kobell, Sisterhood Elana Kolko, USY

Honorary President Ruth Ganz Fargotstein (z”l)

Aliyah Verses Readers Hertz

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1st ראשון Genesis 18:1-5 Irene Kaplow 63 99

2nd 18:6-8 שני Irene Kaplow 63 100

3rd 18:9-14 שלישי Irene Kaplow 64 101

4th 18:15-21 רביעי Ilanit Helfand 64 101

5th 18:22-26 חמישי Ilanit Helfand 65 102

6th 18:27-30 ששי Ilanit Helfand 66 103

7th 18:31-33 שביעי Ilanit Helfand 66 104

Maftir 18:31-33 מפטיר Ilanit Helfand 66 104

Haftarah 2 הפטרה Kings 4:1-37 Jay Fingeret 76 124

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Sisterhood Book Club

The Sisterhood Book Club will discuss Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Monday, January 6, at 7:30 p.m., at Linda’s home.

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Sweepstakes Tickets Are On Sale

Men’s Club 2019 Sweepstakes tickets are available now, at $75 each. Drawing every Friday, based on PA Lottery number.

Tickets must be paid to win! Chance to win twice each week through November. The final event will be held on December 7, 2019. Contact Ira Frank for tickets, 412-849-2937 or natfabira@juno.com.

ENJOY Books

The Sisterhood is selling Enjoy Books, $30. Please contact Dorothy Greenfield at 412-521-5217 or Lonnie Wolf at 412-421-2288 x293 for more information.

Divrei Hashavua — Words of the Week

The vision of Divrei Hashavua is to teach novice Hebrew readers the Hebrew words found in the Torah a few words at a time so they will be more comfortable in our synagogues. We will do this by providing five Hebrew words with their English translation and transliteration each week from the Torah portion in our Friday weekly email. You can read more about this program in this CJ Voices Magazine article: http://www.cjvoices.org/article/words-of-the-week/.

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Sisterhood Judaica Shop - Great Gifts!

Open Friday 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (except holidays), or by appointment

Barbara Kaiserman, 412-422-5677 November - 30% off menorahs and dreidels

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Latkepalooza Social Action Program

Join BSUSY teens for Latkepalooza with donated items for the NCJW Back To School Store.

We encourage you to go Hanukkah shopping for brand new items of all sizes to donate during Latkepalooze, which will be on December 15th. The NCJW allows children to choose

their own clothing and accessories from among the donations, even socks and undies!

Sisterhood Hanukkah Party & Gift Exchange

Sunday, December 8, 2019, 10:00 a.m., in the Eisner Commons

Fun and refreshments! Cost: $5 to be paid at the door. Bring a wrapped gift to get a gift. $10 value gift

or re-gift is welcome! RSVP: Judy Kobell at jayeko@msn.com or 412-422-3226.

We are also asking our attendees to contribute new or gently used hats, scarves, gloves, and socks

to be donated to local shelters.

Urban Air Trampoline & Adventure Park

Sunday, November 24, at 12:00 p.m., 2nd - 12th grade Meet at Rodef Shalom. More information to follow.

Contact Marissa Tait at MTait@BethShalomPgh.org or 412-421-2288 x463.

UPCOMING EVENTS For additional information, please see the flyers in the racks, or go to our website.

Check the calendar on our website for daily event information at http://www.bethshalompgh.org

11:00 a.m. Wednesdays Bring the parashah alive and make it personally relevant and

meaningful with Rabbi Mark Goodman!

Textual Analysis: Sundays at 8:30 p.m. Torah & Modern Life: Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. Dig into the language of the parashah A wide-ranging discussion on how Torah and unpack a difficult section of Torah. affects our modern life, beliefs, and practice.

Join these lay-led discussion groups! All classes meet online. No Hebrew knowledge required. Interested in either or both? Contact derekhCBS@gmail.com

General Admission: $75 $150 VIP Front Row Table Seating

RSVP online at https://bethshalompgh.org/cometogether

Dec. 3rd at Beth Shalom, Dec. 17th Downtown at David Horvitz’ office, 535 Smithfield Street Egalitarianism has become part of the core of the Conservative Movement, but whence did it come? This year, we will be exploring the Jewish legal basis of egalitarianism through responsa literature

and halakhic sources. We will be meeting both at Beth Shalom and Downtown. Please register for Squirrel Hill classes at http://bethshalompgh.org/lunchandlearn/

To include lunch in your registration for the Lunch and Learn classes that are at Beth Shalom, you must register by noon on the Friday prior to the class.

(Lunch cannot be ordered for downtown, but may be taken with you. Registration not required.)

Monday mornings at 9:15 a.m. in Lehman Center: Rabbi Jeremy Markiz learns Massekhet Rosh

Hashanah, a tractate of the Talmud about the many new years that fill out the Jewish calendar. To join the Talmud Class Google Group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/talmudcbs

The next Discussion Service will be Dec. 14th at 10:30 a.m., in Weinberg Pavilion.

Rabbi Adelson leads a discussion-oriented service for all ranges of davener, from the uninitiated to the veterans. We seek meaning behind the words, and personal connections within tefillah.

Free; all are welcome. This year’s theme is “The Intertextuality of Tefillah.” The language of prayer was not exactly handed to us on Mount Sinai.

Where did it come from? What are the sources behind it? How does it connect to other areas of Jewish literature? How might these connections inspire us in prayerful moments?

Sunday, November 17, 2:00-4:00 p.m. at Beth Shalom American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, CEO Doug Seserman introduces this film about David Ben-Gurion. RSVP recommended, space is limited.

RSVP to Claire Winick, winickc@aabgu.org or 215-884-4510.

We are excited to announce a reading group for Ibram X. Kendi’s new book How to Be an AntiRacist. We will be reading the introduction through Chapter 3 - Power for our first conversation on December 5th at 7:30 p.m. Contact Rabbi Jeremy Markiz at

jmarkiz@bethshalompgh.org if you have any quest ions or want to know more.

December 14, 12:45 p.m., Helfant Chapel. Explore the laws of Hanukkah with Rabbi Jeremy Markiz.

Together we will dig into the values we reflect when we light the candles.