12/13/25: 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.
• 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: Dec. 12 at 4:35 p.m. | Dec. 19 at 4:37 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Dec. 13 at 9:15 a.m. | Dec. 20 at 9:15 a.m.
  • Minhah/Third Meal/Ma’ariv: Dec. 13 at 9:15 a.m.| Dec. 20 at 4:05 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Dec. 13 at 5:36 p.m. | Dec. 20 at 5:38 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

Rebecca and Dror Elhassid for sponsoring this week’s kiddush in honor of Karen becoming a bat mitzvah.

The Kolko family for sponsoring this week’s third meal in loving memory of Myron Kolko.

The participants in the Shabbat services on December 13, 2025:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Rabbi Goodman, Sheldon Catz, Karen Elhassid, Hannah Bein, Aaron Balleisen
Torah Readers & Haftarah: Eitan Elhassid, Zachary Kazzaz, Rebecca Elhassid, Jeremy Kazzaz, Tammy Hepps, Karen Elhassid, Adam Kolko
Others: Ira Frank, Steve Berger

Condolences to:

Toby Neufeld on the passing of her husband, Dr. Ronald Neufeld, on Sunday, December 7, 2025.

Lee Ruth Fischbach (Marnin Fischbach) and Jordan Fischbach on the passing of their father and grandfather Oscar Singer on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.

THIS WEEK’S TORAH READING

Parashah – Vayeshev

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Genesis 37:1-3	Eitan Elhassid	226
2.	37:4-7	Zachary Kazzaz	227
3.	37:8-11	Rebecca Elhassid	227
4.	37:12-17	Jeremy Kazzaz	228
5. Tsipi and Meir Elhassid	37:18-22	Tammy Hepps	229
6. Audrey Corson and Daniel Kazzaz	37:23-28	Tammy Hepps	230
7.Rebecca and Dror Elhassid	37:29-36	Karen Elhassid	231
Maftir	37:34-36	Karen Elhassid	232
Haftarah	Amos 2:6-3:8	Karen Elhassid	247

Minhah – Mikkets

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Genesis 41:1-4	Adam Kolko
2.	41:5-7	Adam Kolko
3.	41:8-14	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 DEC. 13 – 19, 2025 23 – 29 KISLEV 5786

Bernard Abels
Sonya F. Barnett
Belle Bennett
Nathan Z. Bennett
Sarah Berkman
Beatrice E. Berkwit
Julius Berliner
Marci Lynn Bernstein
Ben J. Bitterfield
Ella Braemer
Ben Browarsky
Herman Browarsky
Jeanette Caplan
Anna R. Cazen
Laurence R. Cederbaum
Jacob S. Chussitt
Minnie Cohen
Rebecca (Elinoff) Coleman
Ben Fineman
Oscar Finn
Celia Fox
Jason Scott Goldfeder
Lydia S. Golomb
Louis Goodman
Isabelle Gorman
Edith Grobstein
Sue Halpern
Bunie Harris
Manny Hartman
Max Harold Heiss
Max Hershkovitz
Gene Hertz
Philip Hoffman
Ruth G. Horn
Sarah Itskovich
Tillie Izenson
Leo Jolson
Morris Karp
Morducai Kesselman
Molly Kessler
Aaron Klein
Morris Klein
Zelman Krinberg
Simon Leven
Nellie Levenson
Meyer Levy
Celia Liberman
Abe Liebman
Sanford J. Liebschutz
Percy A. Love
Sarah Marks
Rose Melnick
Eva Mervis
Lena Meyerson
Lee Scott Miller
Morris Miller
Rose Miller
Morris Samuel Moltz
Hanina Neaman
Edward Newman
Helen S. Platt
Rachel Portnoy
Jacob M. Robbins
Betty Rose
Morris I. Rosen
Thomas Rosenstein
Charles Ruttenberg
Estelle Schechter
Sander Schmidt
Frima Schussel
Victor Sedaka
Maurice Seiavitch
Robert L. Seiavitch
Fay Serbin
Judith Shafran
Joel Sherry
Esther Shrut
Malvin J. Simon
Samuel Simon
Marilyn Sindler
Esther B. Skirboll
Fannie Solow
Victor Spector
Fannie Stein
Martha Stein
Anna M. Tolochko
Claire Weinbaum
Anne Weintraub
Esther Weiss
Simon Wolf
Rose Beatrice Zinman