4/4/26: 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: Apr. 3 at 7:28 p.m. | Apr. 10 at 7:35 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Apr. 4 at 9:00 a.m. | Apr. 11 at 9:30 a.m.
  • Minhah/Ma’ariv: Apr. 4 at 7:30 p.m. | Apr. 11 at 7:35 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Apr. 4 at 8:29 p.m. | Apr. 11 at 8:37 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

Beth Shalom Sisterhood for the beautiful holiday flowers on the bimah.

The participants in the Pesach Day 1 and 2 services on Thursday, April 2 and Friday, April 3:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Rabbi Goodman, Aaron Charlack, Sheldon Catz, Zarky Rudavsky, Jordan Fischbach, Jonathan Weinkle
Torah Readers (morning services): Phillip Barnett, Hazzan Barbara Barnett, Dave Held, Kobi Tav, Irene Kaplow, Adam Kolko, Jonathan Weinkle, Mark Sindler, Danny Kass
Gabbaim: Ira Frank, Paul Teplitz, Adam Kolko

The participants in the Shabbat services on April 4, 2026:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Sheldon Catz, Zoe Freyberg, Hannah Adelson
Shir HaShirim: Chapter 1: Jonathan Weinkle; Chapter 2: Sheldon Catz; Chapter 3: Tammy Hepps
Torah Readers (morning & afternoon) & Haftarah: Sheldon Catz, Erica Zabusky, Irene Kaplow, Adam Kolko, Debby Gillman
Gabbaim: Ira Frank, Steve Berger

Condolences to:

Daniel (Ella Ziff) Berkowitz and Hannah (Dr. Jacob) Pomerantz on the passing of their mother & grandmother, Barbara Berkowitz, on Sunday, March 29, 2026.

THIS WEEK’S TORAH READING

Pesach Day 1 – Thursday, April 2, 2026: Torah Readings

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Exodus 12:21-24		385
2.	12:25-28		386
3.	12:29-36		387
4.	12:37-42		388
5.	12:43-51		389
Maftir	Numbers 28:16-25		931
Haftarah	Joshua 3:5-7, 5:2-6:1, 6:26		1300

Pesach Day 2 – Friday, April 3, 2026: Torah Readings

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Leviticus 22:26-23:3		723
2.	23:4-14		725
3.	23:15-22		726
4.	23:23-32		727
5.	23:33-44		729
Maftir	Numbers 28:16-25		931
Haftarah	II Kings 23:19, 21-25		1304

Parashah – Chol HaMo’ed 

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Leviticus 33:12-16	Sheldon Catz	538
2.	33:17-19	Sheldon Catz	539
3.	33:20-23	Sheldon Catz	539
4.	34:1-3	Sheldon Catz	540
5.	34:4-10	Ilanit Helfand	541
6.	34:11-17	Ilanit Helfand	542
7.	34:18-26	Ilanit Helfand	543
Maftir	28:19-25	Ilanit Helfand	932
Haftarah	Ezekiel 37:1-14	Manny Schreiber	1308

Minhah – Shemini

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Leviticus 9:1-6	Adam Kolko
2.	Leviticus 9:7-10	Adam Kolko
3.	Leviticus 11-16	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 APR. 4-17, 2026 17 – 30 NISAN 5786

Harry Abrams
Bertha Altman
Morris J. Amdur
Selma S. Antis
Fannie Aronson
Anna L.Avner
Mary Azen
Liza Basova
Morris Benjamin
Lilyanetta Berger
Aaron Berlin
Sharon Binder
Ruth Markley Bloom
Irving Morcha Itzach Leib Blumenfeld
Laura Blumer
Henry Braemer
Wilma Helen Bregman
Paul Brown
Robert R. Buchman
Cathy Ann Chamovitz
Anne Rubin Cohen
Arthur R. Cohen
David Cohen
Diane Roth Cohen
Joseph Cohen
Selma W. Cohen
Anne Coleman
Robert E. Comins
Annie Cooperman
Jean Lubin Davidson
Nathan Deemer
Motel Doninger
Judith Edelmann
Alex Elbling
Gloria Elbling Gottlieb
Samuel Elinoff
Pinxuc Perez Emerman
Ida Z. Fargotstein
Leo Ferber
Ann Fineman
Samuel J. Fingeret
Doris Foner
Louis Freedman
Samuel H. Freeman
Gussie R. Gefsky
Jordan Gilbert
Moishe Glass
Irene Glick
Leah Weiss Gold
Dorothy Goldberg
Jacob H. Goldberg
Anna Goldman
Hersh L. Goldman
Molly Kramer Gordon
Meyer Gusky
Keila Halpern
Essie Hershenson
Arthur S. Herskovitz
Harry Hertz
Benjamin Hurwitz
Israel Iwler
Libby Jacobson
Jennie R. Joseph
George Kalinsky
Evelyn Kalson
Rose Davis Kalson
Jackie K. Kamins
Della Kandel
Lois Kramer Kaplan
Adelaide Katz
Ben H. Klein
Esther Eva Kravitz
Rose Kritberg
Judith F. Krug
Abraham Jacob Kwall
Mary Lazaer
Joseph Lederer
Sophie Leff
Karl Lehrburger
Eva Leipzig
Barry C.Lembersky
Grace Lyon Lenk
Bea Levine
Harry Levine
Beatrice Levinson
Jacob Levinson
Louis Levinson
Alex G. Levison
Sadie Liebman
Sigmund Lipsitz
Milton Lopatin
Ida Malitovsky
Charles Mandelblatt
Evelyn K. Marcus
Joseph Marder
Max Maretsky
Bronie Markiewicz
Thomas Marmins
Fannie Mayer
Edward Mermelstein
Morris Mervis
Joseph Meyers
Lillian Morris
Milton Morris
Rachel Moses
Rabbi Solomon I. Moseson
Henry Moskowitz
Leib Nauhouse
Ruby Neaman
Gregory Nemzov
Zeldie Newman
Harry P. Palkovitz
Rebecca Papernick
Rosa Parker
Susan Pavsner
Kalmon Perlow
Henry Abraham Perlut
Roberta M. Pollack
Carrie Recht
Simon Reisz
George J. Reuben
Alice M. Richard
Howard R. Robbins
Leah Rogal
Louis J. Roobin
Herman D. Rosenblum
Isadore Rosenfeld
David Rosenstein
Charlotte Rosenthal
George Rosenthal
Sadie Rosner
Fannie Ross
Bernard Roth
Reuben Rubinoff
Isaac Sadowsky
Jacob Sadwick
Anne Sedler Samuels
Philip Sattenstein
Abraham Scherr
Mary Schiffman
Adella Secher
Lloyd K. Seiavitch
Thomas Seiner
Irving R. Sherman
Rachel Sherman
William Arthur Sherman
Nettie Sherry
Ralph R. Siegel
Abraham N. Silverman
Jennie Simon
Harry Sisser
Aaron Sklar
Isabelle L. Slone
Neil Irwin Smolar
Leonard Samuel Snyder
Charles Spiegel
Markus Spiegel
Clara Spiegle
Morris Stein
Edith Goodman Steiner
William Taper
Freeda Thorpe
Lt. Col. Joseph Tolbert
Blanche Varady
Gloria Wallach
Sidney Wallach
Cantor Herman Weisberg
Harry Weisberger
Ethel Weiss
Morris B. Weiss
Freda Weissman
Louis Weisz
Steven B. Whitman
Ethel Williams
Harold Wolfe
Jay E. Yecies
Nisan Yurkovetsky
Israel Zalmonovitz
Soretta S. Zasloff
Herbert B. Zukerman
Ruth Zytnick