11/29/25: 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. 28 at 4:36 p.m. | Dec. 5 at 4:35 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Nov. 29 at 9:30 a.m. | Dec. 6 at 9:15 a.m.
  • Minhah/Third Meal/Ma’ariv: Nov. 29 at 4:05 p.m. | Dec. 6 at 4:05 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Nov. 29 at 5:36 p.m. | Dec. 6 at 5:35 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

Miriam & Ben Tillar and Terry & Kenny Steinberg for sponsoring this week’s kiddush in honor of the naming of their daughter and granddaughter, Zoe.

Gil Schneider for sponsoring this week’s third meal in memory of his grandmother Fannie Nydick Meltzer.

The participants in the Shabbat services on November 29, 2025:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Rabbi Goodman, Aviva Lubowsky, Hannah Adelson, Debbey Altman, Aaron Charlack
Torah Readers & Haftarah: Irene Kaplow, Ilanit Helfand, Marnin Fishbach
Others: Ira Frank, Kate Rothstein

Mazal Tov to:

Miriam & Ben Tillar and Terry & Kenny Steinberg on the naming of their daughter and granddaughter, Zoe Elizabeth Tillar.

THIS WEEK’S TORAH READING

Parashah – Vayetse

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Genesis 28:10-12	Irene Kaplow	166
2.	28:13-17	Irene Kaplow	166
3.	28:18-22	Irene Kaplow	168
4.	29:1-8	Irene Kaplow	169
5.	29:9-17	Irene Kaplow	170
6.	29:18-33	Irene Kaplow	171
7.	29:34-30:13	Irene Kaplow	174
Maftir	30:9-13	Irene Kaplow	175
Haftarah	Hosea 12:13-14:10	Marnin Fishbach	189

Minhah – Vayishlah

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Genesis 32:4-6	Ilanit Helfand
2.	32:7-9	Ilanit Helfand
3.	32:10-13	Ilanit Helfand

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. 29 – DEC. 5, 2025 9 – 15 KISLEV 5786

Boris Abramov
Irving Altman
Patricia Love Anouchi
Abraham Antis
Edith Askin
Rose G. Avner
Helen Berliner
Rose G. Bovitch
Morris Braun
Harold J. Calig
Celia Chosky
Saul Colten
Elizabeth Daniels
Robert Davidson
Charles Dinovitz
Esther Drucker
Lillian Elbling
Fanny Epstein
Elizabeth Farber
Sarah Friedman
Stanley Joseph Friedman
Ethel Glass
Hannah Guetl Gold
Ray Goldstein
Earl Gordon
Morris Graff
Anna Greenberg
Esther Glick Groudine
Lyman Harris
Milton E. Helfer
Sylvia Hurwitz
Freda Hydovitz
Sylvan Jacobson
Nathan Kahn
Isadore Karelitz
Marion Kotler
Leonard Krauss
Morris Krifcher
Louis Lazar
Arnold H. Lazarus
Roger Leon
Celia Lerman
Stuart Levine
Hermine Liss
Leona Mandel
Meyer Marcus
Miriam Albert Marcus
Herman M. Moltz
Annie Morris
Hannah Moskowitz
Goldie Nathanson
Virginia Neiman
Louis Newman
Frank Perlmutter
Manya Polishchuk
Suzanne Pollack
Paul Pretter
Oscar Robins
Bessie G. Rogal
Israel R. Rogal
Barry Rosen
Jordan Rosen
Dorothy Rubenstein
Esther Sattenstein
Nathan Saul
Stuart Savage
Shirley Scheinbart
Arthur Schwartz
Edith Schwartz
Elizabeth Shapiro
Hyman J. Shapiro
Freda Sheffler
Sophie Z. Sherman
Samuel Shuman
Lillie Siegel
Cecilia Sigel
Louis David Simon
Isaac Slesinger
Judy Smalley
Ruth Snyder
Celia Solomon
Henry Stein
Michael Stein
Ruth M. Stein
Saul Steinfeld
Dora Surloff
Tillie Weinstein
Robert Weiss
Benjamin Weissman
Abe B. Werner
Betty Wilf
Harry Wolfson
Samuel Zaremberg