2/7/26: 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: Feb. 6 at 5:26 p.m. | Feb. 13 at 5:34 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Feb. 7 at 9:30 a.m. | Feb. 14 at 9:30 a.m.
  • Minhah/Third Meal/Ma’ariv: Feb. 7 at 4:55 p.m. | Feb. 14 at 5:05 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Feb. 7 at 6:28 p.m. | Feb. 14 at 6:36 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

Deb & Mark Sindler for sponsoring this week’s kiddush in honor of Mark’s 50th anniversary of his bar mitzvah – Parsha Yisro.

Friends of Rabbi Adelson for sponsoring this week’s third meal in honor of Rabbi Adelson’s birthday.

The participants in the Shabbat services on February 7, 2026:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Debby Gillman, Beth Jacobs, Chris Hall, Jonathan Weinkle
Torah Readers & Haftarah: Hazzan Barbara Barnett, Phillip Barnett, Irene Kaplow, Adam Kolko, Mark Sindler
Others: Ira Frank, Adam Kolko

Condolences to:

Lois Kopolow (Alan), Amy Jenkinson (Mike), Andrea Cassis (Noah), Adam Kopolow (Hannah), Mason Jenkinson, Carter Jenkinson, Quinn Koplow and Jacob Cassis on the passing of their mother, grandmother and great grandmother Muriel Friedman on Thursday, February 5, 2026.

Barukh Dayyan Ha’Emet:

We are saddened to share the news of the passing of our member and past president Harriet Kruman, on Saturday, January 31, 2026.

THIS WEEK’S TORAH READING

Parashah – Yitro

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Exodus 18:1-12	Hazzan Barbara Barnett	432
2.	18:13-23	Phillip Barnett	434
3.	18:24-27	Phillip Barnett	435
4.	19:1-6	Irene Kaplow	436
5.	19:7-19	Irene Kaplow	438
6.	19:20-20:14	Phillip Barnett	440
7.	20:15-23	Phillip Barnett	449
Maftir	20:18-23	Phillip Barnett	449
Haftarah	Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:5-6	Mark Sindler	452

Minhah – Mishpatim

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Exodus 21:1-6	Adam Kolko
2.	21:7-11	Adam Kolko
3.	21:12-19	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 FEB. 6 – FEB. 20, 2026 20 SHEVAT – 3 ADAR 5786

Rose Abel
Bruce J. Abrams
Gittel Adler
Bessie Taback Americus
Goldie Arluck
Rose Avner
Tina Mae Azen
Harry Balis
Moshe Baran
Bella Belsky
Joseph Benkovitz
Morris Berger
Harriet Berk
Anna Berlin
Hersh Joseph Berlin
Jean Davis Birkenfield
Minnie Wise Birnbaum
Esther Blitz
Joseph Bloom
Ida Caplan
Anna Dunn Cohen
Beatrice Rice Cohen
Florita Cohen
Harry Cohen
Irwin Cohen
Mary Ann Cohen
Reuben A. Cohen
Samuel P. Daniels
Leah R. Danovitz
Anne M. Darling
Joseph Davis
Irvin Deakter
Nathan Deakter
Belle Edelmann
Arthur Edelstein
Fanny Jacobs Eggleston
Eli Elfman
Abraham Engelberg
David Aaron Fauman
Dora Feldman
Carolyn Fiedler
Israel Fineman
Sarah Rachel Fineman
Max Fingeret
Anna Barshady Fisher
Beatrice Ann Fivars
Esther Frank
Maria Ungar Frankle
Paul Gendleberg
Goldie F. Ginsburg
Rose Glick
Sam Glick
Eva Glimcher
Anna Goldberg
Ruth Goldberg
Irvin M. Golding
Sara Goldsmith
Minnie Goldstein
Rose Goldstein
Pauline Goldszer
Alice Goodstein
Lillian Gordon
Morris J. Gordon
Tillie Gray
Belle Green
Bernice Greenfield
Hadassah Gusky
Lynn William Helferd
David Tewel Heringer
Isaac B. Herring
Judith Hoffman
Patty Grossman Hoover
Robert Horvitz
Jacob M. Hurwitz
Heimin Jacobson
Max Joel
Ida Kafton
Julius Kahn
George Kalb
Mary Kalinsky
Betsy Kanarek
Boris Kanovsky
Ella Kant
Louis Kantor
Bess Karelitz
Fannie Katz
Robert L. Katz
Sarah Kaufman
Bernard Kellman
Isaac E. Kirkell
Albert F. Klein
David Kodinsky
Mildred Kornblith
Martin Kornbluth
Oscar Kravitz
Hyman Lang
Edward Lapidus
Helen R. Kurtz Lazarus
Sidney Leiner
David Leven
Rose Levenson
Annie Lever
Rachel Levin
Sarah Levin
Harry E. Levine
Paul Levinson
Orin Jay Levy
Rose Lewin
Sidney M. Lipton
Cecil Louik
Anna F. Ludwig
Meyer Maglin
Aaron Maharam
Samuel Mallinger
Rebecca Marder
Jacob Margolis
Anna Martin
Anna Mayerstein
Isaac Mazur
Fanny Miller
Sam G. Miller
Ruth B. Moldovan
Eugene Morris
Alan Nathenson
Lena Nesvisky
Janis S. Newman
Benjamin H. Parkler
Alice H. Pechner
Joseph Perell
Zelda Ann Perlis
Helen Perlman
Max A. Port
Harry Radbord
Lee Radbord
David Regenstein
Nathan Rice
Albert Harold Robbins
Mollie Rogow
Nathan L. Rosenthal
Rose Rosner
Sadie Ross
Marvin F. Ruben
Herman Ryave
Leroy Sachs
Samuel Sachs
Hyman Sapeer
Edward Saul
Lilly Saul
Philip Schmeiser
Jerome Schneider
Sonia Schneir
Irwin Schulman
Rose Schwartz
Leon Semins
Florence Shapiro
Geraldine Ann Shear
Benjamin Shrut
Leonard Siegelman
Rebecca Sigel
Celia Silverberg
Minor D. Silverberg
Sol Silverman
Esther Simon
Helen Simon
Ethel F. Singer
Malke Spiro
Harry Stark
Julia Stark
Pearle Stark
Ben Stein
Jack N. Stein
Jeffrey Marc Stein
Bessie Swartz
Hyman Tanur
Emma Teitelbaum
William Jacob Toker
Phyllis Wanetick
Celia Waterman
Burnet Weinsweig
Frances B. Wimmer
Rose Wishnovitz
Anna F. Witt
Sylvia N. Wittlin
Norman J. Zabusky
Pauline Zalevsky
Fannie Zalmonovitz
Ruth Zaremberg
Helen Sarah Zeff
Frederick Zwick
Kathryn Zwick
Rose Zwick