10/31/26: 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: Oct. 30 at 6:00 p.m. | Nov. 6 at 4:52 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Oct. 31 at 9:30 a.m. | Nov. 7 at 9:30 a.m.
  • Minhah/Se'udah Shelishit/Ma'ariv: Oct. 31 at 5:30 p.m. | Nov. 7 at 4:20 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Oct. 31 at 7:00 p.m. | Nov. 7 at 5:52 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

Jess Hammer & Chris Hall for sponsoring this week’s kiddush in honor of their 30th wedding anniversary.

Gil Schneider for sponsoring this week’s third meal in loving memory of his father Maxwell M. Schneider.

The participants in the Shabbat services on Saturday, October 31, 2026:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Debby Gillman, Stanley Kirshenbaum, Shoshanna Barnett, Beth Jacobs
Torah Readers (morning & afternoon) & Haftarah: Ilanit Helfand, Ira Rothstein, Jordan Fischbach
Gabbaim: Adam Kolko, Helen Feder

Mazal Tov to:

Sarah & Daniel Diner on the birth of their son, Simon, who was born on Wednesday, October 21, 2026.

This Week's Torah Reading

Parashah - Vayera

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Genesis 19:1-11	Ilanit Helfand	104
2.	19:12-20	Ilanit Helfand	106
3.	19:21-29	Ilanit Helfand	107
4.	19:30-38	Ilanit Helfand	108
5.	20:1-8	Ilanit Helfand	109
6.	20:9-14	Ilanit Helfand	111
7.	20:15-18	Ilanit Helfand	112
Maftir	20:15-18	Ilanit Helfand	112
Haftarah	II Kings 4:1-37	Jordan Fischbach	124

Minhah - Hayyei Sarah

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Genesis 23:1-7	Ira Rothstein
2.	23:8-12	Ira Rothstein
3.	23:13-16	Ira Rothstein

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 OCT. 31 - NOV. 13, 2026 20 HESHVAN - 3 KISLEV, 5787

William E. Alexander
Abe M. Anish
Max A. Antis
Bessie L. Azen
Ella Berger
Dora Berkman
Frank Bertenthal
Ethel G. Birnbaum
Arnold Biron
Fanny Bloom
Anne Lillian Bradlin
Herman A. Brody
Joseph Charapp
Benjamin M. Cohen
James Cohen
Morris Cohen
Schana M. Cohen
Amos Comay
Hillel Davidson
Jack N. Davis
Sam Diamond
Harriet Eliashof
Samuel Erlichman
Morris I. Fargotstein
Shirley Farkas
Ben Feldman
Lillian Wolf Firestone
Samuel Fletcher
Bella R. Fox
Harry E. Frankston
Celia G. Freedman
Nathan Friedland
Ida Friedman
Samuel W. Garber
Hymen Ginsberg
Celia Ginsburg
Fannie Berman Glass
Anna Glick
Shirley J. Golbitz
Hyman Goldenson
Doris Graff
Louis Greenberg
Morris Greenberg
David Greenwald
Edith Gross
Barney J. Grossman
Isidor Grossman
Louis Guttman
Clara Perer Haffner
Benjamin Halpern
Lillian W. Halpern
Fanny Hamburg
Sophie Hausman
Helen Soffern Hays
Gitel Hect
Milton Abraham Heyman
Marian Huttner
Sally Huttner
Harry Jacobs
Beatrice Kaiserman
Samuel S. Katz
Morris W. Kaufman
Saul Kaufman
Hyman Kimel
Sigmund Klein
Morris Kline
Irwin Kotovsky
Karen Lynne Kotovsky
Phillip Kramer
Seymoure Krause
Helen Klein Lazarus
Bernard Leff
Jerome K. Leipzig
Chayem Lembersky
Belle Levenson
Joseph Levin
Louis Levine
Rose Lieberman
Florence Liepack
Sam London
Jacob Lurie
Samuel Malitovsky
Kate Mallinger
Saul D. Mallinger
Rebecca Markley
Eva R. Mars
Jack Mckenzie
James J. McQuarters
Freda Miller
Jacob S. Miller
Sara Miloslavskaya
Julia Moses
Gertrude R. Nachman
Eli Nadel
Ruth Naimark
Max Neiman
Norman Notov
Morris Orlansky
Kate Pittler
Rhoda I. Price
David Pudles
Joseph Reck
Adeline Levitt Reich
Sidney Rice
Melvin Robinson
Nellie Rocklin
Anna Rom
Bertha P. Rosecrans
Bessie L. Rosen
Harry Rosen
David A. Rosenbloom
Richard S. Rosenfeld
Elsie Rosenshine
Bertha Rosenthal
David Ross
Harold Lew Roth
Jack L. Rubenfield
Mary Rubinstein
Pearl Salz
Edward Saron
Cookie Savitz
Jack Schutte
Mary Selekman Schutte
Ann Plotkins Schwartz
Sophie Schwartz
Max Schwimer
Stephen R. Seltman
David H. Shikora
Ferne Shire
Morris Sindler
Sherwin Smalley
Sigmund H. Spiegel
Goldie Wilson Stein
Harry B. Stein
Joseph Stein
Rose Stern
Jacob Stolman
Robert F. Stone
Bertha Surloff
Cantor Moshe Taube'
Fannie S. Ulanoff
Harry L. Weisenthal
Ben Weiser
Milton B. Weiss
Sarah Weiss
Charles Wise
Albert Witt
Anna O. York
Barbara Younger
Joseph Younger
Louis Zweig