THE WEEK AT A GLANCE 8:00 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, Sunday, 11/1 ~ 14 Heshvan 1:00 pm Kadima Event, XXXXXXXXX LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH Daylight Savings Time Ends! 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” 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, 11/2 ~ 15 Heshvan 4:30 pm CBS COVID–19 Taskforce Meeting, Zoom 6:00 pm BSUSY Lounge, Zoom 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” 7:30 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Tuesday, 11/3 ~ 16 Heshvan 12:00 pm Lunch and Learn, Zoom 921 4191 4671, passcode “lunchlearn” 4:15 pm J-JEP 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Shabbat Shalom! 7:30 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Wednesday, 11/4 ~ 17 Heshvan 12:15 pm Life and Text: Weekly Parashah Study, Zoom 890-5460-0481 13 Heshvan, 5781 10.27 Remembrance, Yahrzeit 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” This week’s parashah is Lekh Lekha. 7:30 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Thursday, 11/5 ~ 18 Heshvan 4:15 pm J-JEP 10.27 Remembrance, Yahrzeit 4:30 pm Walk in Frick Park (Derekh) 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Friday, 11/6 ~ 19 Heshvan 7:30 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Candle lighting 4:51 pm 6:00 pm Kabbalat Shabbat, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Saturday, 11/7 ~ 20 Heshvan 9:30 am Shabbat Morning Service, including aufruf for Eric Yoffee & Abigail Blatt, from Aufruf for Abigail Blatt & Eric the Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Yoffee 11:00 am Youth Tefillah with Manny, Zoom Havdalah 5:50 pm 5:00 pm Minhah / “Third Meal” / Ma’ariv, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan”

Friday, October 30, 2020 Youth Services Candle lighting 5:59 p.m. Saturday Yahrzeits FOR THE WEEK OF OCT. 31 - NOV. 6, 2020 13 - 19 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. Rose Abramson Minnie Glass Sidney Judd Hannah Perlow Morris Silver Richard Adelson William Glasser Aaron Kaplan Abraham Pittler Bernice Simon Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm Youth Tefillah with Manny Theiner Edith S. Averbach Ida S. Glassner Pearl Kardon Isadore Pober Sylvan Simon Zoom webcast from the Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary 11:00 am Isadore J. Averbach Kathryn Glazer Sara Kaufman Jerry Rabinowitz Mary Smalley Zoom webcast Louis Azen Henry Glick Max Keiser Nathan Rice Benjamin Smolar Dr. Louis Samuel Berman Jessie Klee Goldberg Rena Sarah Kimball Sidney Roberts Sarah R. Solow Moses Berman Sadie Goldberg Evelyn P. Klemp Charles C. Rosenberg Fanny Spokane S. Steven Block Ethel Goldring Minnie S. Krakoff Cecil Rosenthal Barney Stein Betty Beryl Bogarad Israel Goldstein Joseph Z. Kreger David Rosenthal Daniel Stein Saturday, October 24, 2020 Sylvia Braun Richard Gottfried Regina Labowitz Meyer Rosenthal Phillip Teplitz Annie Margolis Caplan Goldie Colker Gross Menachem Lehrer Libby Rosenthal Edith Trust Havdalah 6:58 p.m. Samuel Chaban Elizabeth Gusky Celie Leitner Rose R. Saltzburg Melvin Wax Samuel H. Cooperman Morris O. Guttman Anna Roth Levitan Harry H. Samuels Sidney Wein Bernard Davidson Katie M. Haitler Sadie Lewis Norman Samuels Betty Weisman Charles Davis Arnold Hecht Rose Mallinger Maxwell M. Schneider Bessie Weiss Joseph Feldman Robert Hecht Joseph Mandell Sarah R. Schugar Irving Younger Shabbat Morning Service, including Benjamin Yehudi Fichman Ida B. Helfand Anne Marmins Rebecca Schwartz Mania Zaludkowski Kogan becoming a bar mitzvah 9:15 am Joyce Fienberg Sam L. Herer George Marvit Louis Segal Ida Fierman Rose Hoffman Samuel Mellinger Lena Seiavitch Zoom webcast from the Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Please refrain from using Robert Fritsch Joseph Hornstein Lillian Miller Ruth Selkowitz personal electronic devices in the Ralph Ganz Arthur C. Jacobs Sara Miloslavskaya Israel Shapera synagogue during Shabbat Allen Garfinkel Benjamin Jaffee Morris A. Paul Juda H. Shlyak and holidays. Thank you. Minhah / Ma’ariv 6:10 pm 5915 BEACON STREET ° PITTSBURGH, PA 15217 ° 412.421.2288 ° BETHSHALOMPGH.ORG Zoom webcast from the Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary SHABBAT SHALOM The Rabbi’s Assistant answers questions that someone might be too shy to ask. Rabbi Adelson joins the Officers and Trustees in welcoming all members and guests to our services. We look forward to seeing you again soon. Who Was Gus Kahn?

Born on November 6, 1886, in Koblenz, Germany, Gustav Gerson Kahn was the son of Isaac and OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY Theresa Kahn. The family moved to Chicago around 1891, and after graduating high school, young Gus worked as a clerk in a mail-order business. It would be his sideline that made him famous. Mazal Tov to Gus Kahn had been writing special material for Vaudeville while in school and then while working his day job, and at the age of 20, he had his first song published, “My Dreamy China Lady.” In 1908 he Sharon & Matt Feinman on the birth of their son Asher Elliott Feinman, born October 22, collaborated with Grace LeBoy on “I Wish I Had a Girl”; it was a hit and eventually he married her. In at 4:00 p.m., weighing 7 lbs., 9 oz. 1916, he composed the lyrics to the hit “Pretty Baby,” by New Orleans jazz artist Tony Jackson (who Elinor Nathanson & Peter Kogan, on son Benjamin being called to the Torah as a bar had moved to Chicago in 1913) and Egbert VanAlstyne. mitzvah! Mr. Kahn would go on to write lyrics with various collaborators for the well-known “Ain’t We Got Fun?” (1921), “My Buddy” and “Toot Toot Tootsie” (1922), “I’ll See You In My Dreams” and “It Had to Be You” (1924), “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby” (1925), “Side by Side” (1927), “Love Me or Leave Me” and “Makin’ Whoopee” (1928). He wrote the ever-popular “Who’s That Knocking at my Door?” and Thank You to “,” “My Buddy,” and “Dream a Little Dream of Me.” And he wrote songs for the films Ziegfeld Girl (1941), the Marx Brothers’ Day at the Races (1937), Flying Down to Rio, Kid Ira Frank, sponsoring this week’s virtual “third meal” study session (between Minhah Millions, Thanks a Million, Everybody Sing, and many more. and Ma’ariv Saturday toward the end of Shabbat) in honor of Rabbi Adelson and all staff. Under the category of obscure history applicable to today, Kahn and VanAlstyne wrote the music for The Cinderella Girl, book by Jo Swerling, which opened in late September 1918 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the middle of the flu pandemic. They were only allowed to sell every other seat in every other row, thus making it impossible for the production to break even. With that weak start, the tour went all the way to Benton Harbor, Michigan, where they played for five days before closing for good. The show was presented by Minnie Palmer and starred her sons, The Four Marx Brothers. Some say it was the only flop the brothers ever had. But out of it, Groucho got grandchildren: many years later Gus Kahn’s daughter Irene married Groucho’s son Arthur. Have you lost something in the shul? Are you missing something important? Gus Kahn passed away in Beverly Hills, California, on October 8, 1941. Did a guest at your event leave something valuable behind? We do have several religious articles left behind with no labels. We look forward to your questions. We have these columns online at http://bethshalompgh.org/ive-always-wondered/ . (Please put your name into your tallit and tefillin bags.) Our lost and found is overflowing. Please call and let us know what you are missing, before we donate it. Please call our Receptionist at 412-421-2288 x114. 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 Executive Officers Specialist, Ext. 108 For all those who borrowed Mahzorim (High Holidays prayer books), Deborah Firestone, President, Ext. 106 Audrey Glickman, Rabbi’s Assistant, Ext. 112 they were due back at the shul by October 23rd, and are now late. Kate Rothstein, Executive Vice President Rabbi Larry Freedman, J-JEP Director, Ext. 323 Please return your books to Tika, our receptionist. 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 Jordan Fischbach, Vice President of Synagogue Life Marissa Tait, Dir. of Youth Programming, Ext. 463 Adam Kolko, Vice President of Y outh Harris Jayson, Kadima Youth Advisor Fred Newman, Treasurer Adi Kadosh, BSUSY Youth Advisor Paul Teplitz, Secretary Michelle Vines, Events Coordinator, Ext. 113 David Horvitz, Immediate Past President Lonnie Wolf, Cemetery Director, Ext. 293 Auxiliary Presidents Tika Bonner, Receptionist, Ext. 114 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 31, 2020 - 13 HESHVAN 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 14:1-9 Benjamin Kogan 50 77 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 Benjamin Kogan 51 79 14:10-16 שני includes these team members: Ira Frank, Mindy Shreve, Julian Elbling, Kate Rothstein, Rabbi 2nd Benjamin Kogan 52 80 14:17-20 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 / Benjamin Kogan 53 81 14:21-24 רביעי fundraising mission and strategic plan. There are several ways for each of you to help not only our 4th Benjamin Kogan 53 82 15:1-6 חמישי Shul but also other Jewish institutions that you may have a special connection to. Our team will be 5th visiting members with the hope that you, our membership, will help us achieve the goals set by the Benjamin Kogan 54 83 15:7-16 ששי program. Please consider leaving a legacy gift to Congregation Beth Shalom which can be 6th Benjamin Kogan 55 85 15:17-21 שביעי achieved in several ways but begins with a “ Declaration of Intent ” through these giving options: 7th Will or Trust, Retirement Plan Assets (IRA, 401K, Pension), Life Insurance Policy, Cash Benjamin Kogan 55 85 15:17-21 מפטיר Donation. And if you’ve already made that choice, please let Rabbi Jeremy Markiz know. Maftir Isaiah 40:27 - 41:16 Benjamin Kogan 60 95 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 your willingness to be a part of this connection and partnership with Jewish MINHAH - OCTOBER 31, 2020 - 13 HESHVAN 5781 organizations and Federations from across North America. Etz Aliyah Verses Reader Hertz Hayim Genesis 18:1-5 Rabbi Amy Bardack 63 99 ראשון 1st

Y 2nd 18:6-8 Rabbi Amy Bardack 63 100 שני O Kadima & BSUSY Virtual Lounge Nights Rabbi Amy Bardack 64 101 18:9-14 שלישי U Open to all 6th - 12th graders! Every Monday night, 6:00 p.m. 3rd T We have fun activities planned! H http://bethshalompgh.org/mondays-virtual-lounge-night/

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M C Sweepstakes Tickets Are On Sale or E L Men’s Club 2019 Sweepstakes tickets are available now, at $50 each. laylah N U Drawing every Friday, through 11/27, based on PA Lottery number. ’ B Tickets must be paid to win! Chance to win twice each week. mayim S Over the eight days of Hanukkah there will be 16 chances to win! etz Contact Ira Frank for tickets, 412-849-2937 or [email protected]. UPCOMING EVENTS Continuing 10.27 Commemoration For additional information, please see the flyers in the racks, or go to our website. Remember, Reflect in Spirit and Action Check the calendar on our website for daily event information The commemoration continues through the yahrzeit, which begins the evening of at http://www.bethshalompgh.org Wednesday, November 4th and continues through Thursday, November 5th. For a variety of ways to participate in commemoration (some requiring advance registration), please visit https://1027healingpartnership.org/. In addition to volunteering opportunities, Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Adelson, first Tuesday of each month, 12:00 p.m.! there will be commemorative study, commemorative gatherings, and healing activities. First session November 3 on Zoom. The topic for this year is “Stories from Nevi’im.” Even though we read a passage from the Prophets every Shabbat/Yom Tov, we often overlook the actual text of the Prophetic books. The Nevi’im literature is rich in language and story, with essential lessons. More 10.27 Commemoration This year we will survey some of the less-traveled parts of Nevi’im in search of great stories. Further information at https://BethShalomPgh.org/LunchandLearn/ Torah Study in Honor of the Eleven We Lost The Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh is offering Torah study with various scholars on 18 Heshvan (November 4-5). Go to https://1027healingpartnership.org/commemorative-study/ or https://jfedpgh.org/study. Shabbat Afternoons (times vary by sunset) Relax between Minhah and Ma’ariv each week as Rabbi Adelson leads us in study. Since we cannot meet and eat in person right now, we are asking for volunteers to sponsor Another Volunteer Opportunity - Phone Calls the “meal” for $100 per week, to provide for ritual necessities such as Torah repair. C O The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism seeks volunteers to call the over 28,000 Contact Ira Frank, 412-849-2937 or [email protected] M Allegheny County voters who received incorrect ballots due to a mailing error. M Please go to https://urj.tfaforms.net/462?utm_medium=email&utm_content=2020_10_19 U Thursdays at 4:30 p.m. N Feeling stuck inside? Join Rabbi Jeremy Markiz for a walk in Frick Park on Thursdays at 4:30pm! We’ll meet at the entrance near the Blue Slide on Beechwood and we’ll go for a short walk through I The Rabbis Explore Jewish Belief the park. A chance to get together, a chance to get outside, and a chance to stretch those legs. T Fourteen Pittsburgh rabbis from every part of the city… one amazing tradition... Please wear a mask in order to keep everyone safe and we will be practicing social distance! Y What do Jews actually believe? What does Jewish tradition have to say about God, Torah, https://bethshalompgh.org/thursdays-walk-in-frick-park/ Mitzvot, Suffering, Messiah, Israel? 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/ Life & Text with Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman, Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m. God Rabbi Jeffrey Myers 10/18 Miracles Rabbi Daniel Wasserman 1/31 A 75-minute class and discussion of Hassidic insights on the weekly Torah portion. Creation Rabbi Mark Goodman 10/25 Revelation Rabbi Daniel Yolkut 2/7 We open with a question and brief discussion focusing on personal growth and life experiences before moving to the words of great rabbis of 18th and 19th century Eastern Europe. Humanity Rabbi Henoch Rosenfeld 11/1 Mitzvot, Halakhah Rabbi Yisroel Altein 2/14 Classes meet online. No Hebrew knowledge required. https://bethshalompgh.org/life-text/ Sin Rabbi Keren Gorban 11/8 Destruction, Exile Rabbi Seth Adelson 2/21 Choseness Rabbi Sharyn Henry 11/15 Messianic Era Rabbi Alex Greenbaum 2/28 Israel Rabbi Jeremy Weisblatt 11/22 After Death? Rabbi Doniel Schon 3/7 The Exodus Rabbi Barbara Symons 12/6 Why Suffering? Rabbi Amy Bardack 3/14 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 Talmud Class Google Group, go to http://bethshalompgh.org/mondaytalmud/ Old Jewish-Organization Pittsburgh-Area Cookbooks Our friends at the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center are this year collecting old Jewish-organization cookbooks published in western Pennsylvania. To contribute a cookbook to 8:30 p.m. Sundays - Dig into the language of the parashah, unpack a difficult section of Torah! the collection, please contact Eric Lidji at [email protected], to verify whether https://bethshalompgh.org/online-parashah/ he needs those particular books. Then bring your books to Audrey Glickman at the shul.