5/9/26: 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: May 8 at 8:04 p.m. | May 15 at 8:11 p.m.
  • Morning Services: May 9 at 9:30 a.m. | May 16 at 9:30 a.m.
  • Minhah/Ma’ariv: May 9 at 8:10 p.m. | May 16 at 8:15 p.m.
  • Havdalah: May 9 at 9:10 p.m. | May 16 at 9:17 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

The participants in the Shabbat services on May 9, 2026:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Rabbi Goodman, Sheldon Catz, Arielle Jacobs, Michael Goldwasser,
Beth Jacobs
Torah Readers (morning & afternoon) & Haftarah: Phillip Barnett, Jonathan Weinkle, Ben Miller,
Hazzan Barbara Barnett, Akiva Weinkle, Sara Morrison, Adam Kolko, Tammy Hepps
Gabbaim: Ira Frank, Adam Kolko

Mazal Tov to:

Brayden Lewinter, Daphne Macedonia & Sylvia Svoboda who received the 2026 Nathan H. Kaufmann Scholastic Award from the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Western Pennsylvania on Sunday, May 3, 2026.

Madelyn Daffner, daughter of Randi and Marc Daffner, will become a bat mitzvah on Saturday, May 16 at Beth El Congregation in South Hills. Grandparents are Alva and Richard Daffner of Mt. Lebanon, PA and Phyllis Wiener and the late Barry Wiener of Boca Raton, FL.

THIS WEEK’S TORAH READING

Parashah – Behar-Bechukotai

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Leviticus 25:1-3	Phillip Barnett	738
2.	25:4-7	Phillip Barnett	738
3.	25:8-13	Jonathan Weinkle	739
4.	25:14-18	Ben Miller	740
5.	25:19-24	Hazzan Barbara Barnett	741
6.	25:25-28	Akiva Weinkle	742
7.	25:29-38	Phillip Barnett	742
Maftir	25:35-38	Sara Morrison	743
Haftarah	Jeremiah 16:19-17:14	Tammy Hepps	763

Minhah – Bamidbar

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Numbers 1:1-4	Adam Kolko
2.	Numbers 1:5-16	Adam Kolko
3.	Numbers 1:17-19	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 MAY 9 – 22, 2026 22 IYAR – 6 SIVAN, 5786

Charles Adelson
L. Leonard Aronson
Henry L. Askenase
Bessie Averbach
Miriam Barbalat
Celia Barrish
Jennie Freda Berez
Max Berlin
Rita S. Berliner
Hermann Birnbaum
Charles Bluestone
Max Blumer
Isadore Bregman
Morris Browarsky
Solomon Caplan
Alex Cohen
Ida Cohen
Morris A. Cohen
Louis Colton
Sholom D. Comay
Jacob N. Daniels
Mollie Daniels
Sarah S. Danovitz
Harry Davidson
Lena Davidson
William Dickerman
Harry Dunn
Joseph Dym
Ruth Eisner
Sylvia Freed
Benjamin Friedman
William Friedman
David Glasser
Samuel Gold
Elfreide Goldberger
Raymond Goldblum
Louis Goldstein
Sol Goldstein
Morris Goldstock
Anna Greenfield
Helen Greenwald
Norman Grobstein
Lillian Halpern
Irwin J. Harris
Ruth Hecht
Bernard Hendel
Max Horowitz
Laura Gross Jacob
Charles Josephs
Adolph Katz
Mollie Klater
Joseph Klemp
Andrew Kline
Anna Kravitz
Solomon H. Kurtz
Clara Sigal Kwall
Florence S. Kyman
Ella Landis
Mollie Lang
Joseph Lasday
Edith Rosen Launer
Esther Leipzig
Jacob H. Lembersky
Myron “Buddy” Letwin
Max Levenson
Rody Levin
Rosalind F. Levine
Esther Y. Levinson
Irwin J. Levinson
Philip A. Levinson
Betsy Levy
Carol Tobin Lewis
Elizabeth Lieberman
Hyman Lutsky
Max Mandell
Sophia Marcus Mann
Etta Markus
Morris Mayerstein
Joe Melnick
Beatrice I. Mermelstein
Abe Minsky
Saul M. Morris
Sidney Morris
Martin J. Moss
Truda Neuman
Esther Newman
Mendel M. Ohringer
Edward Perlow
William Platt
Jacob Podolsky
Sarah R. Praszkier
Herman Recht
Pearl R. Regenstein
Sadie Ress
Paul Reiss
Isabelle R. Robinowitz
Edgar E. Robins
Magda Robinson
Wilma Rosen
Morris A. Rosenberg
Rosie Rosenstein
Louis Roth
Rose Lorraine Rubin
Laurel Rudavsky
Milton M. Ruttenberg
Rose F. Sachs
Herman Sadwick
Israel Schultzman
Isaac Schwartz
Esther Segal
Libbe Seiavitch
Doris Shaiman
Anna Shapiro
Manuel Shapiro
Samuel T. Shear
Ada Freeman Shepard
Herbert Shire
Solomon A. Silverman
Ruben Simon
Dora F. Smith
Eva Somach
Harry Spiro
Yetta Spodek
Jeanette Stern
John M. Sussman
Max Veiss
Bertha Wald
Shirley H. Wein
Yetta Weiss
Robert Whitman
Elinor Young
Sarah Zidman
Samuel Zukerman