8/29/26: 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. 28 at 7:39 p.m. | Sep. 4 at 7:28 p.m.
  • Morning Services: Aug. 29 at 9:30 a.m. | Sep. 5 at 9:30 a.m.
  • Minhah/Ma'ariv: Aug. 29 at 7:40 p.m. | Minhah: Sep. 5 at 7:30 p.m.
  • Havdalah: Aug. 29 at 8:38 p.m. | Ma'ariv/Havdalah: Sep. 5 at 8:15 p.m.

Zoom services do not require a sign-up.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

Thank You to:

The participants in the Shabbat services on Saturday, August 29, 2026:
Service Leaders: Rabbi Adelson, Aaron Balleisen, Steve Berger, Hannah Bein
Torah Readers (morning & afternoon) & Haftarah: Hazzan Barbara Barnett, Suzanne Pritzker, Rebecca Dupuis, Sheldon Catz, Adam Kolko, Tammy Hepps
Gabbaim: Ira Frank, Adam Kolko

Mazal Tov to:

Andie Askin on her recent marriage to Ted Livant. Andie is the daughter of the late Donna LaBorwit Askin and Dan & Ronna Askin.

Hannah Bein and Aaron Balleisen who recently got engaged.

Condolences to:

Robert Russman-Halperin (Wendy) on the passing of his mother, Minna Halperin, on Sunday, August 23, 2026.

THIS WEEK'S TORAH READING

Parashah - Ki Tavo

Aliyah	Verses	Leyner	Etz Hayim
1.	Deuteronomy 26:1-3	Hazzan Barbara Barnett	1140
2.	26:4-8	Hazzan Barbara Barnett	1141
3.	26:9-11	Suzanne Pritzker	1141
4.	26:12-15	Rebecca Dupuis	1142
5.	26:16-19	Sheldon Catz	1143
6.	27:1-4	Sheldon Catz	1144
7.	27:5-10	Sheldon Catz	1145
Maftir	27:7-10	Sheldon Catz	1145
Haftarah	Isaiah 60:1-22	Tammy Hepps	1161

Minhah - Nitzavim

	Verses	Leyner
1.	Deuteronomy 29:9-11	Adam Kolko
2.	Deuteronomy 29:12-14	Adam Kolko
3.	Deuteronomy 29:15-28	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 AUG. 29 - SEP. 11, 2026 16 - 29 ELUL, 5786

Janet Abels
Gertrude Alexander
Julius Altshuler
Anna Amdur
Helen R. Amdur
Milton A. Banov
Mata Barach
Ida Bardin
Mollie Bazarow
Dorothy Belsky
Abraham Bennett
Irene Slayton Benson
Selma Berger
Isadore Berkowitz
Louis S. Berkwit
Chaim Blumner
Lenore Kramer Breman
Rachael Bress
Fannie Broida
Rachel Browarsky
Katherine Chentow
Jann Carole Childs
Mollie S. Cohen
Richard Crone
Ida Dunn
Lena Edelson
Joseph Edelstein
Alla Egoudina
David Feldman
Morton Fiedler
Jacob Fierman
Aaron Finegold
Esther Foreman
Eva S. Friedman
Pearl Gelman
Anna M. Ginsburg
Meyer B. Glass
Jack Glasser
James J. Glick
Alan Goldberg
Louis Goldberg
Oscar Goldberg
Elka Goldstein
Tillie Goldstein
Esther S. Greenberg
Goldye Greenberger
Clifford M. Grobstein
Beatrice Grumet
Israel Halpern
Randi Harlow
Samuel Henry Harris
Irma Heller
Hyman Hoffman
Morris Hoffman
Sam Hurwitz
Elma Huttner
Sadie Jacobs
Clara Josephs
Bessie R. Katz
Morris Katz
Owen Marvin Katz
Allen M. Kaufman
Mary B. Kaufman
Bess Z. Kaufmann
L. Harold Kirkell
Bernice Klein
Lillian Kohler
Morris Kovinow
Leon Kweller
Gertrude Leff
Max Leff
Ernest Lembersky
Albert D. Levenreich
Louis Levinson
Rose Litvak
Harry Loikrec
Max Lumelsky
Alfred G. Lurie
Bessie Lyttle
Fannie Magram
Paul H. Marcus
Harry McKibben
Joel Merenstein
David A. Miller
Martin S. Morrow
Louis Mullen
Bennie Neiman
Frances Newman
Abe D. Nowling
Lillie Palkovitz
Hyman Parkler
Sarah Paul
Rose Podolsky
Rose R. Polk
William Price
Irvin Radbord
Freda Rapport
Lillian Rapport
Harold S. Reck
Anna Goldie Reingold
Sam Ruben
Anna Rubin
Harry Arthur Rubin
Mendel Rubinstein
Mary Sachnoff
Bessie Sachs
Elizabeth Schiffman
Thelma Schiffman
Frank Schoenfeld
Bella Kluger Schwartz
Irene L. Schwartz
Ruth Perlow Schwartz
Sherman Schwartz
Leah Shikora
Pauline Shorr
Morris Sigman
Stanford W. Sillins
Goldie Silverman
Mildred L. Silverman
Morton S. Silverman
Rella Silverman
Steven Simon
Harry A. Simons
Albert A. Slutsky
Pearl Sherman Stahl
William Stark
Saul Stein
Leonard Stern
Anna R. Stolar
Joseph Stolar
Ruth D. Tevelin
Ralph Tisherman
Geraldine Veldenenzer
Rose Vogel
H. Selma Volkin
Fred Wilder
Gayle Wimmer
Morris Winer
Abraham York
Louis Zelekovitz
Joseph Zwick