THE WEEK AT A GLANCE 8:00 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “” ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, Sunday, 10/18 ~ 30 Tishrei 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH Rosh Hodesh Heshvan 8:30 pm Online Parashah Study Group - Textual, Zoom 849-8185-6431 7:30 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” 9:15 am Talmud Study, Zoom 828-0765-0069 Monday, 10/19 ~ 1 Heshvan 4:30 pm CBS COVID–19 Taskforce Meeting, Zoom Rosh Hodesh Heshvan 6:00 pm BSUSY Lounge, Rear Parking Lot 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” 7:30 pm Religious Services Committee Meeting, Zoom 7:30 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” 4:15 pm J-JEP Shabbat Shalom! Tuesday, 10/20 ~ 2 Heshvan 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” 7:30 pm Board of Trustees Meeting, Zoom 29 Tishrei, 5781 7:30 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Wednesday, 10/21 ~ 3 Heshvan 12:15 pm Life and Text: Weekly Parashah Study, Zoom 890-5460-0481 This week’s parashah is Bereshit. 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” 7:30 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” 4:15 pm J-JEP Thursday, 10/22 ~ 4 Heshvan 4:30 pm Walk in Frick Park (Derekh) 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” 7:30 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Friday, 10/23 ~ 5 Heshvan 6:00 pm Hod veHadar Instrumental Kabbalat Shabbat, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode Candle lighting 6:08 pm “minyan” 9:15 am Shabbat Morning Service, including Zoe Blum becoming a bat , from Saturday, 10/24 ~ 6 Heshvan the Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Zoe Blum becomes 11:00 am Youth Tefillah with Manny, Zoom a bat mitzvah 6:15 pm Minhah / Ma’ariv, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Havdalah 7:07 pm 7:00 pm Youth Memorial Havdallah, Rear Parking Lot

Yahrzeits FOR THE WEEK OF OCT. 17 - 23, 2020 29 TISHREI - 5 HESHVAN, 5781 The following Yahrzeits will be observed today and in the coming week. This list comprises those dear departed for whom there are dedicated plaques in our praying spaces, and those for whom contributions have been made to have their names listed here. Friday, October 16, 2020 Youth Services Samuel Bales Nathan Finegold Clara Kweller Rose K. Rosen Bessie Stein Sidney Barmak Isaac Firestone Theodore H. Lazar Florence Rosenthal Louis Stern Candle lighting 6:18 p.m. Saturday Louis Berez Rose Freed Allen Lebovitz Gerald Roth Leona Stutin Helen Berlin David Friedman Samuel R. Letwin Mollie F. Ruttenberg J. Samuel Sugerman Ada Biron Joseph Gerend Jennie Levin Bernice G. Sadwick Edith Thall Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm Nathan Bradlin Charles T. Glick Yetta Levine Melvin H. Samuels Ida H. Wagner Zoom webcast from the Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Bob Buchwach Eugene K. Glickman Samuel M. Levinson Edith A. Schaffer Esther M. Weil Youth Tefillah with Manny Theiner Fanny C. Caplan Bessie M. Gordon Emily K. Lieber Anna Schwartz Yoel Weil 11:00 am Jack Caplan Jacob Green Milton H. Lieber Norma Schwartz Roselle Weinberg Zoom webcast Morris Chamovitz Milton E. Green Bessie T. Lincoff Harry Seiavitch Norman Weiner Belle Chussitt Milton E. Green Isabelle Lubin Ellen Selker Susan M. Wolf Ed Coffey Mordechai Haalman Samuel Lubowski Gilbert E. Shepse Flora Wolf Ruth Coffey Doreen Halpern-Shuty Maurice L. Lyon Louis M. Sieff Ephraim Wolhendler Saturday, October 17, 2020 Mollie E. Cohen Robert Samuel Harris Hyman Mandel Benjamin Simon Hannah Wolhendler Harry B. Davis Jeffrey Helfand Ralph Marcovsky Samuel Smolar Hinda Wolhendler Havdalah 7:17 p.m. Sally Dizenfeld Harry Hydovitz Ruth S. Morris Jerome Solomon Lipman Wolhendler Khana Dorfman Mordechai Ianovsky Bernard Morrow Anna B. Solomon Sarah Wolhendler Jacob Dym Leonard F. Jacobson Irwin Willie Newman Lois Epstein Somers Yochevet Wolhendler Shabbat Morning Service, including Talia Ruth Z. Dym Harry Joseph Kalson Gertrude Palkovitz Ellen Gordon Spatt 9:15 am Joseph Eaton Miryom Kass Frances S. Perell Eva F. Spevock Dubowitz becoming a bat mitzvah Michael Epstein Simon Klein Jacob Raymon Ben Spokane Zoom webcast from the Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Ethel Fibus Della Krakoff Rodger Resnick Joseph Stein Minhah / Ma’ariv 6:25 pm 5915 BEACON STREET ° PITTSBURGH, PA 15217 ° 412.421.2288 ° BETHSHALOMPGH.ORG Zoom webcast from the Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary SHABBAT SHALOM Adelson joins the Officers and Trustees in welcoming all members and guests to our The Rabbi’s Assistant answers questions that someone might be too shy to ask. services. We look forward to seeing you again soon. Why Did the Tunes Change?

“Gee,” said Gene. “When I was a kid in Hebrew school, we used to sing ‘Sim Shalom’ with a great tune, echoing the ‘sim’ part! What happened to that tune?” Then Gil replied, “You never even went to Hebrew school! But you’re right. I OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY remember a totally different ‘Ledor vador’ at the end of the Kedushah, and I miss it. What happened to the great tunes?” Well, Gene and Gil, there are a couple answers to your questions. The short answer is that most likely the tunes didn’t go Mazal Tov to anywhere. For sung prayers (“congregational melodies” - those which the congregation joins in singing) such as “Sim Shalom,” “El Dee Selekman on the birth of granddaughter Leia Vivian Selekman, born October 12th to Adon,” and “ Adon Olam,” for instance, there are many tunes that may be sung. The prayer leader often has choices Aryeh and Rachel Selekman, weighing 8 lb., 4 oz., and 20.75” long. among the tunes and may lead with one tune today and a different tune tomorrow. (Your correspondent’s favorite Psalm is 150, and there are several great tunes for that one.) Rabbi Adelson chooses from his vast and ever-increasing Zarky Rudavsky & Merrianne Leff on the birth of granddaughter Josie Sama Brent, born storehouse and may surprise you. October 2nd to Aliza Rudavsky & Danny Brent. Grandparents are Zarky and Merrianne, Laurel Almost all of the congregational melodies were written since the 1850s, and the vast majority are after World War II. Rudavsky (z”l), and Nancy & David Brent Maybe your favorite tune is not in the current repertoire of the leader or isn’t a favorite, and maybe a bit of teaching or nudging might produce it once in a while. Maybe that part of the service is left out at the times you attend, but if you Zarky Rudavsky & Merrianne Leff on grandson Leo Cook having been called to the only would attend at other times - say Friday evening or Wednesday morning - you would hear it. as a bar mitzvah on Shemini Atzeret at the South Philly Shtiebel. Leo is the son of Shira A different answer to your question, however, might be that you are attending when the nusah - the prayer chant melody - Rudavsky & Steven Cook. is different from what you remember. The cantors over the years developed different chant melodies for different services at different times of different days, such that had you been Rip Ben Weinkle awakening from a long slumber and Tamara Dubowitz & Jay Aronson, on daughter Talia Dubowitz being called to the Torah you stumbled into a service, you would know exactly what day of the week and time of day it was, or maybe whether it as a bat mitzvah! was a holiday or not. So possibly your reduced attendance - especially if it is reduced only to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur each year - exposes you only to the nusah for those days, and you do not get to hear the melodies you remember. Generally, a prayer Condolences to leader would not break into a rousing “Ledor vador! (Ledor vador!) Ledor vador! (Ledor vador!)” in the middle of Yom Kippur morning (unless there was a special reason). But it might occur at musaf on Shabbat. (We remember fondly here Ed & Susan Balis on the passing of his brother Samuel “Sammy” Balis on October 8th. Sylvan Simon z”l who loved that version and wanted to hear it at the end of every Kedushah.) Here in Pittsburgh we have a wealth of prayer leaders with a vast knowledge of tunage. Keep coming to services, and it is likely you will hear your favorites again! Or at least then you will have a better standing from which to request them.

We look forward to your questions. We have these columns online at http://bethshalompgh.org/ive-always-wondered/ .

For all those who borrowed Mahzorim (High Holidays prayer books), they are due back at the shul by October 23rd. Please return your books to Tika, our receptionist. OUR LEADERSHIP Clergy Staff Rabbi Seth Adelson, Ext. 115 Ken Turkewitz, Interim Exec. Director, Ext. 226 Rabbi Mark Staitman, Rabbinic Scholar Dale Caprara, Controller, Ext. 109 Rabbi Jeremy Markiz, Dir. of Derekh & Youth Tefillah, Ext. 111 Kristin Zappone, Communications & Marketing If you enjoy leyning Torah and would like to volunteer for any of our services, please Executive Officers Specialist, Ext. 108 contact the Rabbi’s Assistant at [email protected]. Deborah Firestone, President, Ext. 106 Audrey Glickman, Rabbi’s Assistant, Ext. 112 Kate Rothstein, Executive Vice President Rabbi Larry Freedman, J-JEP Director, Ext. 323 Alan Kopolow, Vice President of Finance Kate Kim, Assistant J-JEP Director, Ext. 323 Hilary Yeckel, Early Learning Center Dir., Ext. 290 Joseph Jolson, Vice President of Operations Pam Stasolla, ELC Assistant Director, Ext. 390 Mindy Shreve, Vice President of Member Engagement Rosie Valdez, ELC Administrator, Ext. 100 Have you lost something in the shul? Are you missing something important? Jordan Fischbach, Vice President of Synagogue Life Marissa Tait, Dir. of Youth Programming, Ext. 463 Did a guest at your event leave something valuable behind? Adam Kolko, Vice President of Y outh Harris Jayson, Kadima Youth Advisor We do have several religious articles left behind with no labels. Fred Newman, Treasurer Adi Kadosh, BSUSY Youth Advisor (Please put your name into your tallit and tefillin bags.) Paul Teplitz, Secretary Michelle Vines, Events Coordinator, Ext. 113 David Horvitz, Immediate Past President Lonnie Wolf, Cemetery Director, Ext. 293 Our lost and found is overflowing. Please call and let us know what you are missing, Tika Bonner, Receptionist, Ext. 114 before we donate it. Please call our Receptionist at 412-421-2288 x114. Auxiliary Presidents Ira Frank, Men’s Club Amira Walker, Bookkeeper, Ext. 110 Judy Kornblith Kobell, Sisterhood 5915 BEACON STREET ° PITTSBURGH, PA 15217 ° (P) 412.421.2288 ° BETHSHALOMPGH.ORG Ori Cohen, USY SHABBAT - OCTOBER 17, 2020 - 29 TISHREI 5781

Beth Shalom is a Legacy Partner. We feel very fortunate to be a part of this program, along with Etz more than thirteen Pittsburgh Jewish organizations offered by the Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh Aliyah Verses Readers Hertz Hayim Genesis 2:4-9 Ezra Dubowitz, Susan Heller 6 12 ראשון and the Harold Grinspoon Foundation. The objective of Life and Legacy is to provide for long-term 1st sustainability for Jewish institutions. Our Beth Shalom program is called the Legacy Circle, and Tamara Dubowitz, Jay Aronson 8 14 2:10-19 שני includes these team members: Ira Frank, Mindy Shreve, Julian Elbling, Kate Rothstein, Rabbi 2nd Marlene Behrmann Cohen 9 16 2:20-25 שלישי Jeremy Markiz, Debby Firestone, and Ken Turkewitz. Our participating goal is to assure the future 3rd of Congregation Beth Shalom, and it is also a very important part of our synagogue’s development / Jane Liebschutz, Maya Zimmerman, 4th 3:1-21 10 17 Abi Zimmerman רביעי fundraising mission and strategic plan. There are several ways for each of you to help not only our Shul but also other Jewish institutions that you may have a special connection to. Our team will be Talia Dubowitz 13 23 3:22-24 חמישי visiting members with the hope that you, our membership, will help us achieve the goals set by the 5th Leah Ackner 13 24 4:1-18 ששי program. Please consider leaving a legacy gift to Congregation Beth Shalom which can be 6th achieved in several ways but begins with a “ Declaration of Intent ” through these giving options: Leah Ackner, Talia Dubowitz 15 28 4:19-26 שביעי Will or Trust, Retirement Plan Assets (IRA, 401K, Pension), Life Insurance Policy, Cash 7th Talia Dubowitz 16 29 4:23-26 מפטיר Donation. And if you’ve already made that choice, please let Rabbi Jeremy Markiz know. Maftir Samuel 20:18-42 Talia Dubowitz 948 1216 1 הפטרה You can make a difference for the future of Pittsburgh’s Jewish Community Haftarah and Congregation Beth Shalom. If you’d like further information, please contact any member of our team or Rabbi Jeremy Markiz at the Shul. We appreciate MIN HAH - OCTOBER 17, 2020 - 29 TISHREI 5781 your willingness to be a part of this connection and partnership with Jewish organizations and Federations from across North America. Etz Aliyah Verses Reader Hertz Hayim Genesis 6:9-16 Rabbi Amy Bardack 26 41 ראשון 1st 2nd 6:17-19 Rabbi Amy Bardack 27 43 שני Y Rabbi Amy Bardack 27 43 6:20-22 שלישי Kadima & BSUSY Virtual Lounge Nights 3rd O Open to all 6th - 12th graders! U ROSH HODESH - OCTOBER 18, 2020 - 30 TISHREI 5781 Every Monday night, 6:00 p.m. Etz T We have fun activities planned! Aliyah Verses Reader Hertz Hayim Numbers 28:1-3 Irene Kaplow 694 929 ראשון H http://bethshalompgh.org/mondays-virtual-lounge-night/ 1st Irene Kaplow 694 930 28:3-5 שני 2nd Irene Kaplow 694 930 28:6-10 שלישי 3rd S - Sisterhood Judaica Shop - Great Gifts! Irene Kaplow 695 931 28:11-15 רביעי I H 4th S O Open by appointment Divrei Hashavua — Words of the Week T O with E D R Barbara Kaiserman, 412-422-5677 hoshekh or M C Sweepstakes Tickets Are On Sale laylah E L Men’s Club 2019 Sweepstakes tickets are available now, at $50 each. N U Drawing every Friday, through 11/27, based on PA Lottery number. mayim ’ B Tickets must be paid to win! Chance to win twice each week. etz S Contact Ira Frank for tickets, 412-849-2937 or [email protected]. UPCOMING EVENTS For additional information, please see the flyers in the racks, or go to our website. Shababababa is a way for multi-generational families, Check the calendar on our website for daily event information even those in different cities, to connect during the at http://www.bethshalompgh.org COVID-19 pandemic! Join Rabbi Adelson over Zoom for a musical Shabbat. Put the chicken in the pot, sing Lekha Dodi, and do Sunday, October 25, at 10:30 a.m., webcast only kiddush together! Join us at 5:15pm on November 6. Please visit the link below to RSVP, and to make donations in honor of the honorees: Grab a cup of grape juice and a bite of challah to bless http://bethshalompgh.org/2020-volunteer-awards-brunch/ together at the end of Shababababa!

Honorees are: Visit https://bethshalompgh.org/

Lester A. Hamburg Member of Nathan E. Snader Distinguished Ethel & Bernard Halpern the Year: Service: Young Leadership: HELEN & RICH FEDER TODD RASCOE JESSICA HAMMER The Explore Jewish Belief

Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle Youth Member of the Year: Staff Member of the Year: 14 Pittsburgh rabbis from every part of the city… one amazing tradition... Volunteer of the Year: BENJI HIMMEL and ELANA DALE CAPRARA What do actually believe? What does Jewish tradition have to say about God, Torah, JONATHAN WEINKLE KOLKO Mitzvot, Suffering, Messiah, ? In this special course, Rabbi Schiff will host 14 Pittsburgh rabbis, each teaching a session on fundamental aspects of Jewish belief. All sessions on Zoom, Sunday mornings, 10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Register at https://foundation.jewishpgh.org/pittsburgh-rabbis-on-jewish-belief/ Thursdays at 4:30 p.m. Feeling stuck inside? Join Rabbi Jeremy Markiz for a walk in Frick Park on Thursdays at God Rabbi Jeffrey Myers 10/18 Miracles Rabbi Daniel Wasserman 1/31 4:30pm! We’ll meet at the entrance near the Blue Slide on Beechwood and we’ll go for a Creation Rabbi Mark Goodman 10/25 Revelation Rabbi Daniel Yolkut 2/7 short walk through the park. Humanity Rabbi Henoch Rosenfeld 11/1 Mitzvot, Halakhah Rabbi Yisroel Altein 2/14 A chance to get together, a chance to get outside, and a chance to stretch those legs. C Sin Rabbi Keren Gorban 11/8 Destruction, Exile Rabbi Seth Adelson 2/21 Please wear a mask in order to keep everyone safe and we will be practicing social distance! O Choseness Rabbi Sharyn Henry 11/15 Messianic Era Rabbi Alex Greenbaum 2/28 Https://bethshalompgh.org/thursdays-walk-in-frick-park/ M Israel Rabbi Jeremy Weisblatt 11/22 After Death? Rabbi Doniel Schon 3/7 M The Exodus Rabbi Barbara Symons 12/6 Why Suffering? Rabbi Amy Bardack 3/14 Life & Text with Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman U Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m. N Old Jewish-Organization Pittsburgh-Area Cookbooks A 75-minute class and discussion of Hassidic insights on the weekly Torah portion. We open with a I Our friends at the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center are this year collecting old question and brief discussion focusing on personal growth and life experiences before moving to the T Jewish-organization cookbooks published in western Pennsylvania. To contribute a cookbook to words of great rabbis of 18th and 19th century Eastern Europe. Y the collection, please contact Eric Lidji at [email protected], to verify whether Classes meet online. No Hebrew knowledge required. he needs those particular books. Then bring your books to Audrey Glickman, https://bethshalompgh.org/online-parashah/ Beth Shalom Rabbi’s Assistant, with your name and address attached.

October 25, 2020 Day of Service Monday mornings at 9:15 a.m. Rabbi Jeremy Markiz learns Massekhet Rosh Hashanah, a tractate of the Talmud about the many new years that fill out the Jewish calendar. To join Remember, Reflect in Spirit and Action Talmud Class Google Group, go to http://bethshalompgh.org/mondaytalmud/ Repair the World Pittsburgh is planning a community-wide day of service on October 25, 2020, in collaboration with the 10.27 Healing Partnership. Community service is a traditional way within the Jewish community to honor loss. We are invited to take part in this day of service and volunteer in person or from the comfort of our own homes. 8:30 p.m. Sundays Dig into the language of the Parashah and unpack a difficult section of Torah! They have a large variety of service sites at which one can volunteer. To register, check out https://bethshalompgh.org/online-parashah/ weRepair.org/pittsburgh or https://1027healingpartnership.org/commemoration/.