1/17/26: Shabbat bulletin

The information below comes from our printed Shabbat Bulletin. We have transitioned our voice to the web, making all materials easily available for our members who are attending services online.  

Service Times

• Shabbat evening services Fridays at 6:00 p.m.
• Junior Congregation Saturdays at 10:00 a.m.
• Level Up Shabbat Every Other Saturday at 10:45 a.m.
• Manny’s Service Saturdays at 11:15 a.m.
• Morning Service (8:00 a.m. on Sunday / 7:30 a.m. Monday – Friday)
• Evening Service (7:00 p.m. Sunday – Thursday / 6:00 p.m. on Friday)
• Shabbat Services:
  • Candle Lighting: Jan. 16 at 5:01 p.m. | Jan. 23 at 5:09 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Jan. 17 at 9:15 a.m. | Jan. 24 at 9:15 a.m.
  • Minhah/Third Meal/Ma’ariv: Jan. 17 at 4:30 p.m. | Jan. 24 at 4:40 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Jan. 17 at 6:04 p.m. | Jan. 24 at 6:12 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

Maggie Whelan & Drew Feiner for sponsoring this week’s kiddush in honor of Caroline becoming a bat mitzvah.

Jeff Rosenbloom for sponsoring this week’s third meal in memory of his mother Natalie Rosenbloom.

The participants in the Shabbat services on January 17, 2026:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Rabbi Goodman, Sheldon Catz, Caroline Feiner, Beth Jacobs, Jonathan Weinkle
Torah Readers & Haftarah: Ari Chester, Phillip Barnett, David Whelan, Adam Feiner, Caroline Feiner, Tara Feiner, Adam Kolko
Others: Ira Frank, Steve Berger

Condolences to:

Andrew Love (Suzanne Pritzker), and Matan and Mori Love on the passing of their father and grandfather, George Love, on Sunday, January 11, 2026.

THIS WEEK’S TORAH READING

Parashah – Va’era 

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Exodus 6:2-5	Ari Chester	351
2.	6:6-9	Phillip Barnett	352
3.	6:10-13	Phillip Barnett	353
4. Robbie Whelan & Allegra Ben Amotz	6:14-19	David Whelan	354
5. David Whelan & Rachel Sobel	6:20-25	Adam Feiner	355
6. Adam & Tara Feiner	6:26-28	Caroline Feiner	355
7. Margaret Fried Whelan, Charlene Feiner,  Maggie Whelan & Drew Feiner	6:29-7:7	Tara Feiner	356
Maftir	7:5-7	Caroline Feiner	357
Haftarah	Ezekiel 28:25-29:21	Caroline Feiner	370

Minhah – Bo

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Exodus 10:1-3	Adam Kolko
2.	10:4-6	Adam Kolko
3.	10:7-11	Adam Kolko

Reminder

If you have placed someone on our Mi Sheberakh list, so that we may pray for their healing, and they have since become well enough to be removed from the list, please let Rabbi’s Assistant Ashley Burse know, at RabbiAsst@BethShalomPgh.org or 412-421-0178.

I’ve Always Wondered

The Rabbi’s Assistant answers questions that someone might be too shy to ask. Click here to read her blog!

Do You Know Your Hebrew Name? Please Write It Down!

Do you know your Hebrew Name? Can you spell it in Hebrew? Do you know the names of your relatives, of those before you and those younger than you? For whom were you named? Do you spell your name the same way? Do you need help with this? We are here. Please collect your family’s full Hebrew names and keep them somewhere safe. We can keep them for you, as well.

Better now than searching years later. As we spend more time with family at home and calling our relatives, we are well situated to do the research.

Your Hebrew name follows the format XXXXXX child of YYYYYY and ZZZZZZ, where XXXXXX is your given Hebrew name, YYYYYY is one parent’s given name, and ZZZZZZ is the other parent’s given name.

Please email Ashley Burse, Rabbi’s Assistant, at aburse@bethshalompgh.org with your name or with questions about finding your name.

Yahrzeits

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

FOR THE WEEKS OF JAN. 17 – 30, 2026 28 TEVET – 12 SHEVAT 5786

Genia Adelsman
Julius Allon
Minnie Altshuler
Harold Aronson
Samuel Averbach
Rachel Baker
Joseph M. Balter
Celia F. Barach
Aron Bardenstein
Louis Bazarow
Bertha Befferman
Julius H. Belle
Bernard E. Benkovitz
Charles Berkowitz
Jack Berman
William Berman
Ferdinand W. Berth
Harry Block
Sigmund Block
Paul Carpe
Helen H. Citron
Anna Clasky
Isaac Cohen
Joel Cohen
Morris Cohen
R. Oscar Cohen
Janet Colker
Libbie Cramer
Yetta K. Crone
Sara T. Davidson
Rose Deemer
Milton Denmark
Max Elinoff
Abraham J. Epstein
Sarah A. Epstein
Shirley Lasser Epstein
Abe E. Fineman
Belle Fingeret
Catherine Fisher
William Fisher
Adolph Freed
Sylvia Freedel
Paul Freedman
Leah R. Friedman
Sara Garfinkel
Sam Gerson
Eliezer Gilberg
Sara Glasser
B. T. Glick
Edward L. Glick
Paul Glimcher
Jacob W. Goldbloom
Philip Goldblum
Rebecca E. Goldman
Saul Milton Goldman
Helen Goodman
Louis Goodstein
Morris M. Green
Phyllis B. Green
Isadore Greenberg
Joseph H. Greenberg
Leah Greenberg
Max Greenfield
Ralph Grinberg
Harry Gross
Meyer Hersh Gross
Joseph Grossman
Julius Grumet
Morris Grumet
Herman Halpern
Victoria Henderson
Pearl G. Herer
Joseph Herzbrun
Benjamin Hirschfield
Barbara Hoffman
Sonia Hoffman
Linda B. Hordiner
Bernard Huttner
Joseph Isaacson
Benjamin Jacobson
Rose Jacobson
Sara R. Jacobson
Bessie Closky Judd
Gussie Kahn
Max Kahn
Miriam Kahn
Samuel H. Kalson
Sidney Kaplan
A. Daniel Kaufman
Lee S. Kaufman
Eileen Keller
Aharon Kessler
Joseph Klein
Rose Klein
Louis G. Kramer
Rae Kubitz
David Laifer
Isaac Landis
Charlotte M. Lazar
Anna Broidy Lazarus
Chaim Lempert
E. L. Levenson
Ida R. Levenson
Charles Levine
Pearl Ruth Levine
Samuel Levine
Mark Alexander Levinson
Leonard H. Levy
Mildred L. Levy
Katie Lincoff
Jacob Linder
Motke Lipshitz
Taube Lipshitz
David Markham Litman
Eugene M. Litman
Sarah Makrauer
Benjamin Mann
Stephan Lee Marcovsky
Mollie Marcus
Henry Markowitz
Sarah E. Marlin
E. Harry Mazerov
Louis Mermelstein
Goldye Meyerson
Leah M. Michelson
Bessie Rider Middleman
Harry Miller
Louis Miller
Marvin Sonny Morris
Lev Moshinsky
Polina Nemzova
Wilbert Newman
Ray Oker
Esther Y. Palkovitz
Harold J. Pasekoff
David Perelman
Eva S. Perlman
Peter Perlow
Meyer Popkins
Anne Price
Ryna Radbord
Manuel Regenstein
Louis Ress
Oscar Robbins
Mollie Robinson
Goldie B. Rofey
Max Rogal
Max Rosenfeld
Louis Rosensweig
Max Roth
Sheldon Roth
Joseph Ruttenberg
Joseph H. Safyan
Harry J. Saul
Samuel I. Saul
Jess Schwartz
Rose Schwartz
Bernice Semins
Joann A. Shina
Joseph Shorr
Clarice Silverberg
Anna Silverblatt
William I. Sivitz
Israel Skirboll
Katie Smolar
Albert Smolover
Belle Sokolow
Simon Solof
Benjamin I. Stein
Elder H. Stein
Max Stein
Morton Stein
Rachmiel Stein
Sarah Stein
Albert J. Supowitz
Rebecca L. Surloff
Cylvia Belle Tanowitz
Fannie E. Tanur
Abraham A. Tapilowski
Louis Tenenouser
James D. Wald
Leon Wald
Jennie Walk
Belle Weiner
Ruth Weisman
Joseph Weiss
Mathilda S. Weiss
Morris Weiss
Sarah H. Weitzen
Clara Werner
Israel J. Williams
Ida Winer
Eva Wintrob
Norman Wolovitz
Meyer Wortzman
Eleanor Zuckerman