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Shabbat Morning Service, including Andrew Elinoff becoming a bar mitzvah 9:15 am
Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary
Early Morning Shabbat Service 6:30 am Homestead Hebrew Chapel
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Havdalah 5:38 p.m.
Sunday, 12/22 ~ 24 Kislev J-JEP closed, begin winter
break. Tonight begins Hanukkah!
Light one candle.
8:00 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 8:30 pm Online Parashah Study Group - Textual, Zoom Video Call
Monday, 12/23 ~ 25 Kislev ELC closed, begin winter break. Hanukkah: Light two candles.
7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:15 am Talmud Study, Lehman Center 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:15 pm Latin Cardio, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom
Tuesday, 12/24 ~ 26 Kislev Office closes at 3:00 p.m. Hanukkah: Light three can-
dles.
7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel
Wednesday, 12/25 ~ 27 Kislev Office closed. Hanukkah: Light four candles.
8:00 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel
Thursday, 12/26 ~ 28 Kislev Hanukkah: Light five candles.
7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel
Friday, 12/27 ~ 29 Kislev Rosh Hodesh Tevet Hanukkah: Light six candles. Candle lighting 4:42 pm
7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 6:00 pm Kabbalat Shabbat, Helfant Chapel
Saturday, 12/28 ~ 30 Kislev Rosh Hodesh Tevet Havdalah 5:42 pm Hanukkah: Light seven can-
dles.
6:30 am Early Morning Shabbat Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:15 am Shabbat Morning Service, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 10:00 am Youth Tefillah, Meet in Shear Youth Lounge, then to respective services 12:15 pm Congregational Kiddush, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 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
ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH
Please look for this symbol inside for info on accessible entrances at Beth Shalom.
THE WEEK AT A GLANCE
FOR THE WEEK OF DEC. 21 - 27, 2019 23 - 29 KISLEV, 5780 Yahrzeits
Bernard Abels Sonya F. Barnett Belle Bennett Nathan Z. Bennett Sarah Berkman Beatrice E. Berkwit Julius Berliner Marci Lynn Bernstein Ben J. Bitterfield Ella Braemer Herman Browarsky Ben Browarsky Johanna Burton Jeanette Caplan Anna R. Cazen Laurence R. Cederbaum Jacob S. Chussitt Minnie Cohen Rebecca Coleman
Ruth Davidson Basya Dityatkovskaya Helen Ruth Edelstein Rebecca Elinoff Ben Fineman Oscar Finn Julius Fischbach Celia Fox Fannie Frankel Jason Goldfeder Isabelle Gorman Edith Grobstein Sue Halpern Annette Harris Bunie Harris Harry Harris Manny Hartman Max Harold Heiss Max Hershkovitz
Gene Hertz Philip Hoffman Ruth G. Horn Sarah Itskovich Tillie Izenson Leo Jolson Morris Karp Morducai Kesselman Molly Kessler Aaron Klein Morris Klein Myron Kolko Zelman Krinberg Simon Leven Nellie Levenson Meyer Levy Celia Liberman Abe Liebman Sanford Liebschutz
Louis Lipsitz Percy A. Love Sarah Marks Rose Melnick Eva Mervis Lena Meyerson Lee Scott Miller Morris Miller Rose Miller Morris Samuel Moltz Hanina Neaman Edward Newman David Paransky Ethel Perlman Helen S. Platt Rachel Portnoy Jacob M. Robbins Manuel M. Rogoff Morris I. Rosen
Thomas Rosenstein H. David Rothman Max Rothman Leonard Rudolph Charles Ruttenberg Betty Sayenko Sander Schmidt Mitchell Schoen Frima Schussel Victor Sedaka Maurice Seiavitch Robert L. Seiavitch Fay Serbin Judith Shafran Esther Shrut Malvin J. Simon May C. Simon Samuel Simon Marilyn Sindler
Abraham Sissman Esther B. Skirboll Fannie Solow Victor Spector Martha Stein Fannie Stein Betty Steinfeld Alan Stept Anna M. Tolochko Anne Weintraub Esther Weiss Esther E. Weiss Simon Wolf
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
or Rice Gym.
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
3rd - 5th Grade Youth Tefillah 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Youth Lounge, 4th floor
Friday, December 20, 2019
Candle lighting 4:38 p.m.
Minhah 4:10 pm Homestead Hebrew Chapel
Se’udah Shelishit 4:35 pm Eisner Commons
Ma’ariv 5:20 pm Homestead Hebrew Chapel
Congregational Extended K iddush, sponsored by Beth & Jeffrey Elinoff in honor of Andrew becoming a bar mitzvah 12:15 pm
Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom
Shabbat Shalom! 23 Kislev, 5780
This week’s parashah is Vayeshev.
Hod veHadar Instrumental and Teen-Led Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm
Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom
Teen Shabbat Dinner 7:00 pm Eisner Commons
The Rabbi’s Assistant answers questions that someone might be too shy to ask.
I Ask Myself, Beethoven and Jews?
While celebrating the birthday of Ludwig Van Beethoven, born December 16, 1770, I came across a delightful article for The Forward by Seth Rogovoy, who has written on Jewish influence on popular music, and has worked as author, writer, editor, critic, radio commentator, and in other fields, and not only that he substitute-taught Rabbi Seth Adelson back in the 1980s. Beginning the 250-year celebration of Beethoven’s life (his 250th is next year), Mr. Rogovoy wrote on “The Secret Jewish History Of Ludwig Van Beethoven.” (Beethoven was born in Bonn, and died in Vienna in 1827.)
Mr. Rogovoy notes how much like a klezmer Beethoven was, in that he was born into a musical family, in which his grandfather sang bass and also conducted, and his father sang tenor and taught keyboard and violin. Beethoven started on the piano, and moved to viola, violin, and composition. Fame would find him early and continuing: he would become one of those known-by-one-name musicians!
Mr. Rogovoy points out that among Beethoven’s numerous compositions was one based on a Jewish melody and another including the work of a Jewish poet. Additionally, Beethoven’s work “led to the creation of one of the most universal Yiddish poems of all time,” he asserts. Let’s look into this. In 1816, Beethoven composed a song cycle (Liederkreis in German), sort of an ordered album before there was recording ability. (Yes, children, to hear them again one used to have to walk around singing the songs without earbuds playing them, or else hire the orchestra back.) The lyrics were written by Alois Isidor Jeitteles, a Jewish physician (like his predecessors) and also poet, playwright, and translator.
Mr. Rogovoy informs us that the song cycle, “An die ferne Geliebte” (1816), will be performed on April 20, 2020, at YIVO in New York City, alongside his C-Sharp Minor Quartet, opus 131 (1826) (listen for Beethovenized “Kol Nidre” in the sixth movement). The composer had been asked in 1824 to write a cantata celebrating the opening of the Viennese Jewish community’s new synagogue. As Händel had had a hit with his “Saul” oratorio (1738), Beethoven studied up on ancient Hebrew music. (He declined the commission, though, and Franz Schubert set Tov Lehodot for the occasion.)
Beethoven was not immune to the anti-Semitic attitudes of the day, as evidenced in his letters. And when Y.L. Peretz “translated” “Ode to Joy” into Yiddish, he rather turned it into an inclusive regrouping, “All People are Brothers,” riffing on the notion that folks in a hateful Europe were singing “Ode to Joy” not really aspiring to much higher glory.
Beethoven, though, did work with and do business with Jews; indeed his later publishers were Jewish. And they say he was dating a Jewish woman when asked to compose for the shul dedication; her parents intervened in the relationship.
We look forward to your questions. We have these columns online at http://bethshalompgh.org/ive-always-wondered/ .
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 extended kiddush, sponsored by Beth & Jeffrey Elinoff in honor of Andrew Elinoff becoming a bar mitzvah, immediately following services in the Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom.
This week’s Se’udah Shelishit will be sponsored by the Kolko family in memory of Myron Kolko.
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 [email protected]
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!
To sponsor the a third meal, please contact Ira Frank: 412-281-4064 or [email protected]
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 [email protected].
Have you or your guests 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, Dir. of Derekh and Youth 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 Exec. 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 Dir., Ext. 390 Rosie Valdez, ELC Administrator Marissa Tait, Dir. of Youth Programming, Ext. 463 Ethan Einhorn, Kadima Y outh Advisor Adi Kadosh, BSUSY Y outh Advisor Michelle Vines, Events Coordinator, Ext. 113 Lonnie Wolf, Cemetery Director, Ext. 293 Tika Bonner, Receptionist, Ext. 114 Carole Salisbury, Bookkeeper, Ext. 110
Auxiliary Presidents Ira Frank, Men’s Club Judy Kornblith Kobell, Sisterhood Elana Kolko, USY
Honorary President Ruth Ganz Fargotstein (z”l)
Mazal Tov to
Hanna (and David z”l) Edelstein, announcing the engagement of their grandson Jordan Edelstein, son of Mark & Ter i Edelstein of Atlanta, Georgia, to Gena Soffer of Woodbridge, Connecticut.
The Westchester Jewish Center is bringing a group of teens to Pittsburgh. We are looking for volunteers to host two teens each from Friday, January 24, through Sunday morning, January 26.
Please email Marissa Tait at [email protected].
Please save the date for our upcoming Scholar -in-Residence weekend with
Rabbi Jeffrey Schein and Dr. Deborah Schein. The topic will be the relationship among Judaism, technology, and the spirituality of our children.
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1st ראשון Genesis 37:1-3 Adam Kolko 141 226
2nd 37:4-7 שני Adam Kolko 141 227
3rd 37:8-11 שלישי Adam Kolko 142 227
4th 37:12-17 רביעי Marlene Behrmann Cohen 142 228
5th 37:18-22 חמישי Marlene Behrmann Cohen 143 229
6th 37:23-28 ששי Dave Held 143 230
7th 37:29-36 שביעי Dave Held 144 231
Maftir 37:34-36 מפטיר Andrew Elinoff 144 232
Haftarah הפטרה Amos 2:6 - 3:8 Andrew Elinoff 152 247
SHABBAT - 23 KISLEV 5780
PARASHAT VAYESHEV
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.
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
halom
almanah
zonah
asirim
pitronim
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 December - 30% off all Hanukkah merchandise
Visit the Gift Shop for your Hanukkah shopping
and see the Bus in the Hole display! Better yet, buy the bus!
Sisterhood Shabbat
February 1, 2020
Sisterhood Shabbat celebrates the women in our congregation and presents an opportunity for all of us to learn together.
The speaker will be Danielle Kranjec, Senior Jewish Educator at Hillel-JUC. A member of Beth Shalom, Danielle previously worked with the
Agency for Jewish Learning, and holds an MA in Medieval Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
This year we honor Pat Weiss, Marlene Behrmann Cohen, and Ilanit Helfand.
Please plan to join us for the service and for lunch.
If you are interested in having a part in the service, please contact Helen Feder with your name, email address, and phone number,
whether you prefer Hebrew or English parts or non-speaking parts, or if you want to do something specific.
Helen may be reached by email at [email protected] (please put “Sisterhood Shabbat 2020” into the subject line)
or by phone at 412-521-2797.
Financial donations are also welcome, please, through http://tinyurl.com/SisterhoodShabbat5780.
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
Feb. 4th at Beth Shalom, Feb. 11th Downtown at David Horvitz’ office, 535 Smithfield Street
Egalitarianism has become part of the core of the Conservative Movement, but whence did it come? We are exploring the Jewish legal basis of egalitarianism
through responsa literature and halakhic sources. We will be discussing the landmark teshuvah “On the Ordination of Women as Rabbis”
from 1984 by Rabbi Joel Roth.
Please register for Sq. 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.)
The next Discussion Service will be February 22 at 10:30 a.m., in the 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? The February service topic is “The Languages of Tefillah.”
11:00 a.m. Wednesdays Bring the parashah alive and make it personally relevant and
meaningful with Rabbi Mark Goodman! On December 25 and January 1, the class may informally meet at an outside venue.
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 [email protected]
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. If you'd like to join the Talmud Class Google Group, follow this link: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/talmudcbs
January 12, 10:00 a.m. Data Visualization: From Energy Storage to Driverless Cars
After spending a decade designing energy storage systems in a chemistry lab, Shoshanna Barnett decided to learn how to make things with a keyboard.
She is currently a software engineer at Uber here in Pittsburgh.
Learn about this fellow congregant’s job and how she makes complex ideas simple through data visualization techniques.
A light breakfast will be served with bagels and lox sponsored by Beth Shalom Men’s Club. The event is free.
Please contact our office at 412-421-2288 or email [email protected] to RSVP.
Congregational Dinner
Friday, February 28, 7:00 p.m. Congregational Dinner, following Hod veHadar Instrumental K abbalat Shabbat at 6:00.
Sponsored by Men’s Club and Sisterhood $25 per adult; $10 per child (12 and under)
RSVP by 2/21/2020, please. Sign up online: https://tinyurl.com/DinnerFebruary5780
Congregational Adult Purim
Men’s Club and Sisterhood are planning for Sunday evening, March 8, an Adult Purim Party.
If you would like to help plan the evening’s events, please contact Judy Kobell,
at [email protected] or 412-422-3226!
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Jews For Justice: Dinner and Discussion
SAVE THE DATE! Friday, January 17, 2020, 6:00 p.m. (beginning with teen-led Shabbat service in Helfant Chapel)
Our fourth annual award-winning Beth Shalom USY Jews For Justice! Tikkun Olam: What Does It Really Mean?
One teen leader will facilitate dialogue between courses at each table. Similar programming for children in K-5th grade and babysitting will be available upon reservation only. We are
proud and excited to share a meal and important conversations with you! Watch for more information, coming soon!
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Cards and Kits
Sunday, January 5, 1:00-3:00 p.m. Repair the World Family Service Corps and Congregation Beth Shalom
present Cards and Kits. Pack snack kits and write heartfelt messages for kids living at the border.
Please register at https://rpr.world/familiespgh.
