8/15/26: 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: Aug. 14 at 8:00 p.m. | Aug. 21 at 7:50 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Aug. 15 at 9:15 a.m. | Aug. 22 at 9:15 a.m.
  • Minhah/Ma'ariv: Aug. 15 at 8:00 p.m. | Aug. 22 at 7:50 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Aug. 15 at 8:59 p.m. | Aug. 22 at 8:49 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

Liz and Aaron Smuckler for sponsoring this week’s kiddush in honor of Sammy becoming a bar mitzvah.

The participants in the Shabbat services on Saturday, August 15, 2026:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Jonathan Weinkle, Sammy Smuckler, Sheldon Catz
Torah Readers (morning & afternoon) & Haftarah: Sammy Smuckler, Daniel Markowitz, Benji Smuckler, Kimi Smuckler, Adam Kolko
Gabbaim: Ira Frank, Steve Berger

THIS WEEK'S TORAH READING

Parashah - Shofetim

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Deuteronomy 16:18-20	Sammy Smuckler	1088
2.	16:21-17:7	Daniel Markowitz	1089
3.	17:8-10	Benji Smuckler	1090
4.	17:11-13	Kimi Smuckler	1091
5.	17:14-17	Sammy Smuckler	1092
6.	17:18-20	Sammy Smuckler	1093
7.	18:1-5	Sammy Smuckler	1093
Maftir	18:3-5	Sammy Smuckler	1094
Haftarah	Isaiah 51:12-52:12	Sammy Smuckler	1108

Minhah - Ki Tetse

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Deuteronomy 21:10-14	Adam Kolko
2.	Deuteronomy 21:15-17	Adam Kolko
3.	Deuteronomy 21:18-21	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 15 - 28, 2026 2 - 15 ELUL, 5786

Mabel Abramovitz
Norman Arluck
Khana Azbel
Alan Herbert Azen
Samuel Bachner
Ida Baer
Harry L Baker
Tillie Bennett
Leon Alan Berger
Anna F. Berkman
Mendel Berlin
Sidney Block
Freida S. Braemer
Leo S. Brody
Dora Caplan
Sarah B. Caplan
Nat P. Cinkin
Bernard Cohen
Lois Allison Cohen
Elizabeth D. Cramer
Yekusiel Cutler
Samuel Denmark
Harold Dunn
David Edelstein
Abe Edison
Meyer Fiman
David Fingeret
Lawrence A. Folpe
Albert Simon Frankle
Mildred Freidberg
Louis O. Ginsburg
Edith Glick
David Gold
Yeshayoh Gold
Annie D. Goldberg
Annie F. Goldhamer
Augusta G. Goldman
Sara Goncheroff
Mayer A. Green
Oscar M. Green
Jacob Greenberg
Allen Grinberg
Norman A. Groudine
Bernard Harris
Charlotte Helfer
Samuel Herman
Dr. William Hoffman
Charles K. Hourvitz
Howard W. Jacobson
Sara Kanterowitz
Rebecca Karelitz
Henry Karp
Pearl B. Karwan
Bertram Katz
Belle Kaufman
Sarah F. Kaufman
Herman Keisler
Norma Plotkin Kentor
Sara Klein
Sherri Lee Klein
Isaac Kotler
Nicholas Krym
Lewis Lasday
Pearl Laufe
Joseph L. Lebovitz
Esther Lefkowitz
Jocelyn Lehman
Rose Letwin
Samuel Leven
Bernard M. Levin
Joseph M. Levine
Thomas Lewis
Simon Lieberman
Ruth Mackler
Fannie S. Majulik
Bessie Malkin
Norman M. Marcus
Harry W. Martin
Samuel Mermelstein
Jack Meyers
Aaron L. Miller
Betty E. Miller
Sadye S. Miller
Stephanie Ann Miller
Ida Millstone
Ida Mogerman
Joseph G. Moidel
Perry Morrison
Reuben Moskowitz
Annie Eve (Chijner) Myers
Robert L. Nathan
Nathan Newman
Teddy Nisenbaum
Cynthia Anne Oleinick
Pauline Ortenberg
Joseph Palkovitz
Samuel Papernick
Irvin Pepper
Bella Recht
Bertha Reck
Salven Reck
Rose Fairman Reznik
Harry Robin
Louis A. Robins
Frank J. Robinson
Donald Rosenthal
Fishel Rosenthal
Frank Rubenstein
William Rubenstein
Saul J. Rubin
Anna B. Sachs
James Sacks
Dora Saul
Ida P. Saul
Clara Scherr
Joseph J. Schmidt
George Schneider
Louis Schneir
Amalia Schwartz
Samuel Shapiro
Jeannette Shear
Ruth Sheldon
Eleanor Shepse
Marianne Silberman
Abraham I. Silverman
Lee Singer
Zelda Sniderman
Herman Solomon
Yolanda Spiegel
Leo Spiegle
Samuel Spokane
Nathan M. Stark
Ralph Stein
Daniel Stone
Charles Stutin
Harry Tapley
Minnie Trachtenberg
Harry Treelisky
Wilhelm Weiner
Ida Weisband
Andrew Weiss
Frederick Weiss
Leo Weiss
Pearl Weiss
Susan Weiss
Martin Harry Wikes
David A. Wolf
Esther Zinman
Madeline Feldman Zukerman
Nina Zytnick