12/27/25: 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. 26 at 4:41 p.m. | Jan. 2 at 4:47 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Dec. 27 at 9:30 a.m. | Jan. 3 at 9:30 a.m.
  • Minhah/Third Meal/Ma’ariv: Dec. 27 at 4:10 p.m. | Jan. 3 at 4:15 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Dec. 27 at 5:42 p.m. | Jan. 3 at 5:51 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

The participants in the Shabbat services on December 27, 2025:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Goodman, Sheldon Catz, Helen Feder, Dori Catz
Torah Readers & Haftarah: Ilanit Helfand, Millie Rothstein, Diane Silberg, Ira Rothstein, Tammy Hepps
Others: Ira Frank, Gerry Kobell

THIS WEEK’S TORAH READING

Parashah – Vayiggash

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Genesis 44:18-20	Ilanit Helfand	274
2.	44:21-24	Ilanit Helfand	274
3.	44:25-30	Ilanit Helfand	274
4.	44:31-34	Ilanit Helfand	275
5.	45:1-7	Ilanit Helfand	275
6.	45:8-18	Ilanit Helfand	277
7.	45:19-27	Ilanit Helfand	278
Maftir	45:25-27	Ilanit Helfand	279
Haftarah	Ezekiel 37:15-28	Tammy Hepps	291

Minhah – Vayhi

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Genesis 47:28-31	Millie Rothstein
2.	48:1-3	Diane Silberg
3.	48:4-9	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 WEEK OF DEC. 27, 2025 – JAN. 9, 2026 7- 13 TEVET 5786

Minnie Adler
Rose Adler
Henry Albert
Abraham T. Azen
Morris R. Becker
Edith Fleegler Belle
Mary Bernstein
Sarah Bernstein
Gayle F. Block
Israel Blumenfeld
Benjamin H. Bonn
Gilbert S. Brody
Joseph J. Broida
Herbert B. Burechson
Milton Burechson
Minnie Burechson
Fannie Calig
Aaron Canter
Violetmae Caplan
Albert Cazen
William Cellio
William H. Cohen
Sally S. Daniels
Mary Darling
Bertha Diulus
Edward John Eggleston
Ida S. Elbling
Joseph Elias
Seymour Estner
Ruth Gantz Fargotstein
Hyman Feld
Shirley W. Feldman
Louis Fischer
Mortimer Frankston
Jeanne Hydovitz Glick
George J. Goldberg
Samuel Goldblatt
David K. Goldblum
Helen S. Goldman
Esther Goldstein
Howard N. Goldstein
Rose Goodman
Fannie Goodstein
David Jay Gould
David Graff
Clara Green
Esther Ann Green
Mildred Green
R. Zelda Greenberg
Simon Greengard
Celia Greenstein
Irving Halpern
David Hausrath
Myra Kohn Hausroth
Margery L. Herer
Sophie D. Hersh
Benjamin Hushan
Saul A. Jacobson
Fannie Kahn
Rose M. Kalson
Sam Kalson
Harry Kaufman
Emanuel Klee
Sarah Klein
Paul L. Kornblith
Rosella C. Kraus
Emanuel Krifcher
Yetta Krovitsky
Albert L. Lange
Leonard L. Launer
Pearl Cohen Lazar
Richard Lebovitz
Morris Lefkowitz
Harry Lembersky
Rose Levine
Hyman Levinson
Dora Levison
Melvin F. Levy
Max Maharam
Morris Kalman Manela
Maurice A. Markley
Norman Mazerov
Herschel Merenstein
Sarah Mervis
Andrew Meyers
Israel Meyerson
Sol Mintz
David Moltz
Rose S. Morris
Morris Naumoff
Johanna B. Noven
Max Osofsky
Diana Parnes
Gertrude Pober
Bert Prince
Jacob M. Rapport
Jechezkel Ratchkauskas
Sol Rattner
Arthur J. Recht
Harry Reuben
Anna Robbins
Samuel Rofey
Chaya Rosenberg
Irene Rosenfeld
George Rosenthal
Arthur Rosenzweig
Nathan Roth
Samuel Roth
O. Louis Rubenstein
Milton Ruttenberg
Ethel Goldye Sachs
Joseph L. Sameth
Sam Sapeer
Max Saul
Leah C. Savage
Belva June Schiff
Max Schwartz
Nathan Schwartz
Sarah Schwartz
Lydia A. M. Scott
Ben Seiavitch
Louis Sesler
Zellick A. Shepman
Solomon Sherman
Rae Shuman
Abraham Sidransky
Rose B. Simensky
Edith B. Slayton
Harry Slifkin
Sanford Slutsky
Herman M. Spiegel
Morris Stahlberg
Anna M. Steinman
David Steinman
Samuel S. Stewart
Lillian Stone
Sarah Sugerman
Leah Tapley
Julius Trachtenberg
Sadie Ungar
Bessie Valinsky
Clara Weber
Bella Wein
Samuel J. Weinberg
Eugene Weinberger
Mary Weinstein
Jack Weiss
Bertha Weisz
Miksa Weisz
Aaron Weitz
Bessie Whitman
Frommie Harris Whitman
Howard Ray Whitman
Jacob Wolk
Efroim Ziff