12/20/25: 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. 19 at 4:37 p.m. | Dec. 26 at 4:41 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Dec. 20 at 9:15 a.m. | Dec. 27 at 9:30 a.m.
  • Minhah/Third Meal/Ma’ariv: Dec. 20 at 4:05 p.m. | Dec. 27 at 4:10 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Dec. 20 at 5:38 p.m. | Dec. 27 at 5:42 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

The Arnold H. Lazarus and Belle G. Lazarus Annual Remembrance Fund for sponsoring this week’s Congregational Extended Kiddush honoring the memory of Arnold H. Lazarus (z”l) and Belle G. Lazarus (z”l).

Mindy Shreve, Bobby, Danny, and Bella Bress for sponsoring this week’s third meal in memory of their beloved father and grandfather Kenneth Bress.

The participants in the Shabbat services on December 20, 2025:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Rabbi Goodman, Aaron Balleisen, Dalia Kolko, Debby Gillman, Tammy Hepps
Torah Readers & Haftarah: Ilanit Helfand, Irene Kaplow, Barbara Barnett, Phillip Barnett, Danny Kass
Others: Ira Frank, Helen Feder

Condolences to:

Vita Nemirovsky (Dr. Jonathan Weinkle), on the passing of her father, Dr. Natan I. Nemirovsky on Tuesday, December 16, 2025.

THIS WEEK’S TORAH READING

Parashah – Mikkets

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Genesis 41:1-4	Ilanit Helfand	250
2.	41:5-7	Ilanit Helfand	250
3.	41:8-14	Ilanit Helfand	251
4.	41:15-24	Ilanit Helfand	252
5.	41:25-38	Ilanit Helfand	253
6.	41:39-52	Ilanit Helfand	254
7.	28:9-15	Irene Kaplow	930
Maftir	7:42-47	Hazzan Barbara Barnett	808
Haftarah	Zechariah 2:14-4:7	Danny Kass	1270

Minhah – Vayiggash

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Genesis 44:18-20	Phillip Barnett
2.	44:21-24	Phillip Barnett
3.	44:25-30	Phillip Barnett

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. 20, 2025 – JAN. 2, 2026 30 KISLEV – 13 TEVET 5786

Myer Alpern
Bella Askenase
Edith Fleegler Belle
Ada Belsky
Edna S. Bennett
Louis Berman
Isadore Bliwas
Israel Blumenfeld
Benjamin H. Bonn
Kenneth Bress
Ethel Briskin
Joseph J. Broida
Herbert B. Burechson
Milton Burechson
Aaron Canter
Joseph Cohen
William H. Cohen
Sidney Sanford Cook
Sally S. Daniels
Bertha Diulus
Harry Dorfman
Edward John Eggleston
Ruth Gantz Fargotstein
Hyman Feld
Milton Feder
Arthur Finkelstein
Louis Fischer
Pauline Fisher
Leonard Fivars
Sadie Garfinkel
Ruth Garvin
Meyer Gefsky
Edwin Morris Ginsburg
Jeanne Hydovitz Glick
Rachel Goldberg
Samuel Goldblatt
David K. Goldblum
Joseph Goldhamer
Helen S. Goldman
J. A. Goldman
Lee S. Goldman
Isaac Goldszer
Phillip Goodman
Rose Goodman
Fannie Goodstein
David Jay Gould
Jacob Grayefsky
Esther Ann Green
Harry Greenberg
Simon Greengard
David Gusky
Irving Halpern
Robert Hartstein
David Hausman
David Hausrath
Myra Kohn Hausroth
Emil R. Horowitz
Samuel Hyman
Henrietta Itskovich
Saul A. Jacobson
Belle Kalson
Sam Kalson
Zalmon Kanterowitz
William Jay Karelitz
Harry Kaufman
Eugene L. Kauffman
Louis Kessler
Barbara Lynne Klee
Emanuel Klee
Saul Klein
Rubin Kravitsky
Emanuel Krifcher
Alex Kritberg
Yetta Krovitsky
Leonard L. Launer
Jacqueline Inez Leipzig Miller
Harry Lembersky
Fannie Lempert
Burton Lerner
Leonard Levin
Rose Levine
Samuel M. Levinson
Herman Levy
Melvin F. Levy
Reuben Levy
Abraham Lewis
Bernard Lipsitz
Gilbert Liss
Max Maharam
Jacob Marcus
Maurice A. Markley
Norman Mazerov
Gerald Merenstein
Israel Meyerson
David Miller
Hyman Millstone
Sol Mintz
Lawrence Morris
Janet Moses
Benjamin Z. Neaman
Barry Neft
Svetlana Nemzova
Johanna B. Noven
Harold Ostrover
Alex M. Pollack
Saul Portnoy
Harry Pretter
Bert Prince
Jacob M. Rapport
Annette Reicher
William Reinwasser
Harry Reuben
Bella Richter
John B. Robbins
Samuel Rofey
Harry D. Rosen
Stanley Michael Rosen
Chaya Rosenberg
George Rosenthal
Joseph S. Roth
Nathan Roth
Samuel Roth
Walter Roth
Esther Rothman
O. Louis Rubenstein
Leonard Rudolph
Harriette Ruttenberg
David Sakolsky
Irene Samuel
Max Saul
Leah C. Savage
Ida Schloss
Samuel Schwartz
Seymour Schwartz
Abraham Segal
Jay Serbin
Louis Sesler
Sadie P. Sesler
Esther Shapiro
Fannie Shapiro
Harry I. Sherrin
Hattie Shire
William Silk
Gloria Simons
Edith B. Slayton
Gertrude Snyder
David Solomon
Sara Stadtlander
David Stein
Sarah Stein
Eva Stept
Lillian Rudich Stern
Lillian Stone
Joseph Sugerman
Louis B. Supowitz
Marion Swerdlow
Leah Tapley
Julius Trachtenberg
Sadie Ungar
Louis H. Volk
Bella Wein
Raymond Weinberg
Samuel J. Weinberg
Mildred Weiner
Isadore J. Weinstein
Benjamin Weisberg
Bernard H. Weiss
Miksa Weisz
Frommie Harris Whitman
Scott Wirtzman
Carolyn E. Wolfe