5/16/26: 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 15 at 8:11 p.m. | May 22 at 8:18 p.m.
  • Morning Services: May 16 at 9:30 a.m. | May 23 at 9:30 a.m.
  • Minhah/Ma’ariv: May 16 at 8:15 p.m. | May 23 at 8:15 p.m.
  • Havdalah: May 16 at 9:17 p.m. | May 23 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 16, 2026:
Service Leaders: Ilene Cohen, Adam Kolko, Danny Kass, Tammy Hepps, Hannah Bein, Jonathan Weinkle
Torah Readers (morning & afternoon) & Haftarah: Judah Arnold, Adam Kolko, Raychel Franey,
Phillip Barnett, Erik Franey, Jenny Jackson, Jordan Fischbach
Gabbaim: Ira Frank, Paul Teplitz

THIS WEEK’S TORAH READING

Parashah – Bamidbar

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Numbers 1:1-4	Judah Arnold	769
2.	1:5-16	Adam Kolko	770
3.	1:17-19	Raychel Franey	771
4.	1:20-27	Phillip Barnett	771
5.	1:28-35	Phillip Barnett	772
6.	1:36-43	Phillip Barnett	772
7.	1:44-54	Phillip Barnett	773
Maftir	1:52-54	Erik Franey	774
Haftarah	I Samuel 20:18-42	Jordan Fishbach	1216

Minhah – Naso

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Numbers 4:21-24	Jenny Jackson
2.	Numbers 4:25-28	Jenny Jackson
3.	Numbers 4:29-33	Jenny Jackson

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 16 – 29, 2026 29 IYAR – 13 SIVAN, 5786

Charles Adelson
L. Leonard Aronson
Bessie Averbach
Celia Barrish
Jean Belansky
Yuriy Beniaminov
Bassa G. Bennett
Helen Berenfield
Leonard Berenfield
Jennie Freda Berez
Joseph Berger
Jane Berlin
Juda Bickel
Hermann Birnbaum
Charles Bluestone
Isadore Bregman
Emanuel Caplan
Lee Chajson
Alex Cohen
Fannie A. Cohen
Ida Cohen
Jennie S. Cohen
Lena F. Cohen
Louis Coltin
Sholom D. Comay
Harry Davidson
Lena Davidson
Jacob L. Doniger
Harry Dunn
Joseph Dym
Abraham E. Fairman
Irwin Fineberg
Eva S. Fink
Sylvia Freed
Gertrude Freedman
Elaine Genberg
David Glasser
Louis Goldberg
Anna R. Goldman
Benjamin B. Goldman
Louis Goldstein
Israel Gould
Oscar Green
Jacob Greenberger
Anna Greenfield
Evelyn Leff Greenwald
Helen Greenwald
Norman Grobstein
Phyllis E. Gutmacher
Lillian Halpern
Michael Halpern
Albert Hansell
Anna B. Hausman
Ruth Hecht
Edith Helfand
Bernard Hendel
Laura Gross Jacob
Sarah H. Jacobson
Rafael Kadoch
Ann Kalla
Rae Karsh
Joseph Klemp
Andrew Kline
Annie Kovinow
Ella Landis
Mollie Lang
Esther Leipzig
Myron “Buddy” Letwin
Harry H. Levine
Rosalind F. Levine
Esther Y. Levinson
Max Levinson
Naomi Levinson
Ralph Levison
Josephine Levy
Olaf L. Loikrec
Hyman Lutsky
Faye C. Makrauer
Phillip P. Marcuson
Harry Marder
Harry Marks
Etta Markus
Morris Mayerstein
Beatrice I. Mermelstein
Melvin A. Meyers
Sarah Milgrom
Hannah Miller
Morris Minkin
Abe Minsky
Robert Moldovan
Sidney Morris
Martin J.Moss
Edith Nathenson
Truda Neuman
Samuel D. Nevins
Solomon Chaim Newman
Mendel M. Ohringer
Jacob Podolsky
Bernard Portnoy
Rose Rattner
Herman Recht
Pearl R. Regenstein
Sadie Ress
Frances Rice
Gilbert Robin
Isabelle R. Robinowitz
Edgar E. Robins
Esther R. Rosen
Morris A. Rosenberg
Jose Rosenfeld
Rosie Rosenstein
Sam Rosner
Louis Roth
Rose Lorraine Rubin
C. Lawrence Ruttenberg
Louis Ruttenberg
Milton M. Ruttenberg
Herman Sadwick
Dora Schultz
Isaac Schwartz
Libbe Seiavitch
Anna Shapiro
Manuel Shapiro
Moshe J. Shapiro
David Sheffler
Joel David Shire
Yakov Shomstein
Jacob Ezra Shrut
Harris Silverberg
Alex Silverman
Jennie R. Silverman
Lawrence Silverman
Dora F. Smith
Eva Somach
Morris Somach
Shirley Bassin Spatt
Harry Spiro
Yetta Spodek
Dena Stein
Ilse Stein
Rose Steinberg
Simon Steiner
Eileen Suzan Stewart
John M. Sussman
Iris Kimball Teplitz
Marvin Valinsky
Shirley H. Wein
George Weintraub
Lillian Weisberg
Robert Whitman
Lilyan Wiesenthal
Bessie Yecies
Gitel Younger
Alexander Yurkovetsky
Hermoine Ruth Zeilinger
Fay Ziff
Arnold L. Zukerman