7/18/26: 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 17 at 8:29 p.m. | July 24 at 8:24 p.m.
  • Morning Services: July 18 at 9:30 a.m. | July 25 at 9:30 a.m.
  • Minhah/Ma'ariv: July 18 at 8:30 p.m. | July 25 at 8:25 p.m.
  • Havdalah: July 18 at 9:29 p.m. | July 25 at 9:23 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

Diane Samuels & David Sufrin for sponsoring this week’s virtual third meal in commemoration of Diane's mother Joan Schwatzman's yahrzeit.

The participants in the Shabbat services on Saturday, July 18, 2026:
Service Leaders: Martin Gaynor, Ben Miller, Debby Gillman
Torah Readers (morning & afternoon) & Haftarah: Sheldon Catz, Ilanit Helfand, Dave Held, Tammy Hepps, Adam Kolko
Gabbaim: Ira Frank, Adam Kolko

Condolences to:

Dan Leger (Ellen) on the passing of his brother, Paul Leger, on Monday, July 13, 2026.

THIS WEEK'S TORAH READING

Parashah - Devarim

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Deuteronomy 1:1-3	Sheldon Catz	941
2.	1:4-7	Sheldon Catz	942
3.	1:8-10	Sheldon Catz	943
4.	1:11-21	Ilanit Helfand	943
5.	1:22-28	Dave Held	945
6.	1:29-38	Tammy Hepps	947
7.	1:39-2:1	Tammy Hepps	948
Maftir	1:39-2:1	Tammy Hepps	949
Haftarah	Isaiah 1:1-27	Sheldon Catz	973

Minhah -VaEtchanan

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Deuteronomy 3:23-25	Adam Kolko
2.	Deuteronomy 3:26-4:4	Adam Kolko
3.	Deuteronomy 4:5-8	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 JULY 18 - JULY 31, 2026 4 - 17 AV, 5786

Frances R. Allon
Katie Allon
Donna LaBorwit Askin
Julius Elias Aussenberg
Katie G. Banov
Tille Banov
Eunice R. Baradon
Ronald Barasch
Albert Bash
Morris Milton Berger
Chaia Bergman
Harry M. Berlin
Carmela Bernstein
Mark Joel Birnbaum
Sidney Jerome Brody
David H. Buchman
Robert Chamovitz
Elihu Cohen
Joseph Cohen
Joseph W. Cohn
Martin Colker
Irina Dzeba
Irving N. Elbling
Sarah Elfman
Abraham Eliashof
Bernice Elinoff
Selma Ruth Feldman
Ruben Felman
Mordecai Ferber
Isaac Fineberg
Beatrice Fineman
Hyman Zelig Finkel
Mildred Finkel
Edward I. Fishbein
Howard Alvin Freedman
Sophie Freedman
Fannie Friedland
Fay Friedman
Jacob Friedman
Milton Friedman
Gabriel Galpern
Bernice Ruth Geffner
Clara Gettleman
Sophie F. Ginsburg
Meyer Gisser
Helen Goldberg
Isaac Golden
Belle Goldstein
Maurice Golomb
Harry A. Goodman
Matthew Goodman
Esther Brinn Gordon
Rebecca E. Green
Max M. Greenberg
Alan Greenwald
Meyer I. Grinberg
Belle Gusky
Meyer H. Handmaker
Murray David Harlow
Max Harris
Francie Hausman
Howard I. Hausman
Abraham Heller
Julius Hemmelstein
Morris Hirschfield
Allen M. Hoffman
Jerrold D. Hydovitz
Phillip R. Hydovitz
Edward Izenson
Milton Judd
Harry Julius
Hyman Kalson
Harry Katz
Lynn Schwartz Katz
Goldie Kaufman
Elaine Robin Schwartz Kemler
Hina Ketselman
Irwin E. Kitman
Samuel L. Kleber
Dorothy Mae Klein
Pauline C. Klein
Lillian Kopple
Elizabeth Kornblum
Gizella Krause
Morris Kwall
Herman Labowitz
Benjamin D. Lazar
Benjamin Lazier
Beverly Lebovitz
Marcelyn Lebovitz
Anne Levine
Dorothy G. Levine
Oser Magram
Ida Mandel
Marvin Marcus
Sara Marcus
Samuel Maysels
Max M. Mervis
Benjamin Migdal
Alvin James Moldovan
Clara Moritz
Sarah Morris
Hyman Mulhauser
Bernard (Chester) Neft
Thelma Tybie Neft
Gregory Nizhner
Natalie Novick
Selig Perlman
Eli Racusin
Norma Radin
Abraham Recht
C. Joseph Recht
Marjorie B. Robbins
Augusta Robin
Betty G. Robins
Henry E. Robins
Henry Robinson
Irma S. Rogoff
Dora Farenbaugh Rosenberg
Sophie Rosenstein
David Roth
Howard Russman
Daniel Saron
Ida Saron
Bernhardt M. Saul
Simpson Irving Schechter
Cecelia G. Schultz
Gizi Schwalb
Samuel W. Schwartz
Martha Schwortz
Bella Seegman
Ruth Sevel
Ada Shrut
Nathan Silverberg
Morton B. Silverman
Beverly Skilken
Gerdi Smiga
Bernard Harvey Sobol
Ethel Solof
Phillip Speck
Jennie Stein
Shirley Ann Stein
Celia Stept
Ethel K. Stept
Hyman Sugerman
Freda Tepper
Rev Henry Tolochko
Frances S. Tucker
Albert Uretsky
Helen R. Weinberger
Irene Weiss
Michael Scott Weiss
Saul H. Weissman
Emanuel H. Wimmer
Harold Winkler
Henry Dean Wyner
Louis T. Young
Rimma Zamakhovsky