11/15/25: 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.
• 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: Nov. 14 at 4:44 p.m. | Nov. 21 at 4:39 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Nov. 15 at 9:30 a.m. | Nov. 22 at 9:30 a.m.
  • Minhah/Third Meal/Ma’ariv: Nov. 15 at 4:15 p.m. | Nov. 22 at 4:10 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Nov. 15 at 5:44 p.m. | Nov. 22 at 5:41 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

The Sindler, Krasnow, Zell, Favish, and Levine Families for sponsoring this week’s kiddush in memory of Minnie Cohen (z”l) and Marilyn C. Sindler (z”l) (both of whose yahrzeits are 23 Kislev).

Jeff Rosenbloom for sponsoring this week’s third meal in memory of his father, Dr. David Rosenbloom.

The participants in the Shabbat services on November 15, 2025:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Rabbi Goodman, Debby Gillman, Sheldon Catz, Steve Hecht
Torah Readers & Haftarah: Ira Rothstein, Irene Kaplow, Adam Kolko, Marnin Fishbach
Others: Ira Frank, Steve Berger

Mazal Tov to:

Patty (Sherman) & Alan Barnett and Roma Beth Olitt on the joyful marriage of their children, Michael Craig Barnett and Jordyn Bari Herman, in Rye, N.Y. on Sunday, November 2, 2025. Grandparents are the late Connie and Samuel Sherman (z”l), the late Sonya and Charles Barnett (z”l) of New York City, NY, and Joyce Olitt and the late Jerry Olitt (z”l) of Old Greenwich, CT.

Condolences to:

Cherie Maharam, Alexis Maharam and Edie (Matthew) Styen, Morgan and Clayton Styen on the passing of their husband, father and grandfather, Stanley Maharam on Monday, November 10, 2025.

THIS WEEK’S TORAH READING

Parashah – Hayyey sarah

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Genesis 23:1-4	Ira Rothstein	127
2.	23:5-7	Ira Rothstein	128
3.	23:8-12	Ira Rothstein	128
4.	23:13-16	Ira Rothstein	129
5.	23:17-20	Irene Kaplow	130
6.	24:1-4	Irene Kaplow	130
7.	24:5-9	Irene Kaplow	131
Maftir	24:5-9	Irene Kaplow	131
Haftarah	I Kings 1:1-31	Marnin Fishbach	143

Minhah – Toledot

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Genesis 25:19-22	Adam Kolko
2.	25:23-26	Adam Kolko
3.	25:27-26:5	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 WEEK OF NOV. 15 – 21, 2025 24 CHESVAN – 1 KISLEV 5786

William E. Alexander
Abe M. Anish
Bessie L Azen
Ella Berger
Dora Berkman
Frank Bertenthal
Ethel G. Birnbaum
Arnold Biron
Anne Lillian Bradlin
Herman A. Brody
Joseph Charapp
Benjamin M. Cohen
Harriet Eliashof
Samuel Erlichman
Morris I. Fargotstein
Samuel Fletcher
Harry E. Frankston
Ida Friedman
Samuel W. Garber
Celia Ginsburg
Fannie Berman Glass
Anna Glick
Shirley J. Golbitz
Hyman Goldenson
Louis Greenberg
Morris Greenberg
Edith Gross
Louis Guttman
Benjamin Halpern
Lillian W. Halpern
Fanny Hamburg
Helen Soffern Hays
Milton Abraham Heyman
Marian Huttner
Sally Huttner
Harry Jacobs
Morris W. Kaufman
Hyman Kimel
Hannah D. Klein
Sigmund Klein
Karen Lynne Kotovsky
Phillip Kramer
Helen Klein Lazarus
Jerome K. Leipzig
Chayem Lembersky
Belle Levenson
Joseph Levin
Louis Levine
Kate Mallinger
Jack Mckenzie
James J. McQuarters
Freda Miller
Jacob S. Miller
Julia Moses
Gertrude R. Nachman
Max Neiman
David Newman
Norman Notov
Faina Ostrovsky
Rhoda I. Price
David Pudles
Melvin Robinson
Anna Rom
Bertha P. Rosecrans
Bessie L. Rosen
David A. Rosenbloom
David Ross
Mary Rubinstein
Edward Saron
Cookie Savitz
Sophie Schwartz
Max Schwimer
Stephen R. Seltman
Morris Sindler
Sigmund H. Spiegel
Harry B. Stein
Joseph Stein
Jacob Stolman
Bertha Surloff
Cantor Moshe Taube
Sarah Weiss