8/1/26: 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: July 31 at 8:17 p.m. | Aug. 7 at 8:09 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Aug. 1 at 9:15 a.m. | Aug. 8 at 9:15 a.m.
  • Minhah/Ma'ariv: Aug. 1 at 8:15 p.m. | Aug. 8 at 8:10 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Aug. 1 at 9:16 p.m. | Aug. 8 at 9:08 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

Mimi and Jack Halpern’s children, Ilene, Jon, Neil, and their families for sponsoring today’s kiddush in honor of Mimi and Jack Halpern’s 90th birthdays.

The participants in the Shabbat services on Saturday, August 1, 2026:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Rich Feder, Ilene Cohen
Torah Readers (morning & afternoon) & Haftarah: Phillip Barnett, Dave Held, Ilanit Helfand, Adam Kolko, Danny Kass
Gabbaim: Ira Frank, Helen Feder

THIS WEEK'S TORAH READING

Parashah - Ekev

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Deuteronomy 7:12-16	Phillip Barnett	1037
2.	7:17-21	Phillip Barnett	1038
3.	7:22-26	Phillip Barnett	1038
4.	8:1-3	Phillip Barnett	1039
5.	8:4-10	Dave Held	1040
6.	8:11-18	Ilanit Helfand	1041
7.	8:19-9:3	Ilanit Helfand	1042
Maftir	9:1-3	Ilanit Helfand	1042
Haftarah	Isaiah 49:14-51:3	Danny Kass	1056

Minhah -Re'eh

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Deuteronomy 11:26-31	Adam Kolko
2.	Deuteronomy 11:32-12:5	Adam Kolko
3.	Deuteronomy 12:6-10	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 AUGUST 1 - 14, 2026 18 AV - 1 ELUL, 5786

Saul Alber
Isadore Alpern
Harry Averbach
Auvra Averback
Ruth Balber
Dorothy Baltin
Eva S. Barach
Willie Bendas
Mendel Berer
Harriet B. Berk
Yvonne J. Berkwit
Sadye Bowytz
Esther P. Brodie
Carla Brody
Cantor Finley Bukaitz
Lillian Burechson
Perrine Caplan
Dorothy Chosky
Andrew Cohen
Rose Colker
Harry Cooper
Ettie Dane
Nathan Darling
Jacob W. Davis
Bernice Dickoff
Ben Dinovitz
Larry Dobkin
Cyma Dolan
Millicent Stein Dolson
Rose Domb
Leonard Ehrenreich
Joseph Feldman
Helen Fink
Katie Finkel
Rose Berenfield Fishbein
Nathan Foreman
Benjamin E. Friedman
Louis Garfinkel
Sam Garfinkel
Morris (Sonny) Gelman
Audrey Golden
Solomon Goldstein
Shirley Gordon
Reva Gurevich
Rose Grace Halpern
Lester A. Hamburg
Dana Helfer
Hyman Herman
Frances Hershberg
Sherman Hershman
Anna Hoffman
Hazel Horowitz
Hilda Hurwitz
Charles Hydovitz
Ann Hyman
Jeannette Joseph
Richard Judd
Mayme G. Kaplan
Fred Kaye
Fannie G. Kenner
Harry Arthur Kingley
Elia Klein
Elaine Belle Krasik
Ellen Krell
Esther Grumet Lampl
Sylvia G. Landay
Rita Perlow Langue
Charles Laufe
Samuel Lempert
David Marc Letwin
Bernard A. Levine
Jules M. Levine
David Levison
Ida Levy
Simon Levy
Beverly LeWinter
Rose Lieber
Lotte Lippmann
N. Leonard Litman
Mina Mandel
Jacob H. Marcus
Harry Markley
Jacob A. Mates
Philip Milgron
Abraham D. Miller
Joseph C. Miller
William P. Mirskey
Sophia Moltz
Anne Morris
Laura G. Moss
Bela Narinskaya
Saul Neft
Celia Ochs
Max S. Rackoff
Henry D. Recht
Anna R. Rosenbloom
Max Rubenstein
Esther Rudo
Anita O. Ruslander
Nathaniel M. Schorin
Benjamin Schwartz
Helen Schwartz
Mollie R. Schwartz
Helen Hyman Schweiger
Charlotte Schwimer
Estelle Segal
Bazalel Seiavitch
Albert Shapiro
Rachel Shapiro
Jeannette Bonn Shear
Benjamin Sheinman
Phillip Sidransky
Martha Silberberg
Maurice Silverberg
Minnie Silverberg
Alexander H. Singer
Rose G. Skirboll
Frank Solomon
Joseph Spokane
Berthold Stein
Isadore Stein
Selma Stein
Amalia Steinbach
Samuel Steinman
David H. Stern
Rebecca Supowitz
Fannie Surloff
Irwin M. Surloff
Meyer Maier Talenfeld
Earle S. Thall
Grace Tucker
Louis Wakes
Samuel Watkins
Eileen Gross Wayne
H. Jesse Wayne
Molly D. Wein
Sophie Weinkle
Henry M. Weisberg
William Weiss
Frank Weitzen
Herbert Wilf
Mary Winn
Harry Winsberg
William M. "Bill" Yoffee
Yuri Yurovsky
Charlotte Fox Zabusky
Semeon Zamakhovsky
Rose Ethel Zweig
Aaron H. Zwick