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THE WEEK at a GLANCE Yahrzeits THE WEEK AT A GLANCE ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, Sunday, 7/1 ~ 18 Tammuz 8:00 am Morning Service (with Torah reading for Fast), Homestead Hebrew Chapel LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH Fast of Tammuz (dawn to dark) 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Monday, 7/2 ~ 19 Tammuz 9:00 am Talmud Study, 61C Café, 1839 Murray Avenue 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel Shabbat Shalom! 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Tuesday, 7/3 ~ 20 Tammuz 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 17 Tammuz, 5778 Wednesday, 7/4 ~ 21 Tammuz parashah Balak. 8:00 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel This week’s is Independence Day 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel Office closed. 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Thursday, 7/5 ~ 22 Tammuz 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel Friday, 7/6 ~ 23 Tammuz 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Candle lighting 8:34 pm 5:45 pm Shababababa and Shabbat Haverim, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 6:00 pm Kabbalat Shabbat, Helfant Chapel Friday, June 29, 2018 6:30 am Early Morning Shabbat Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:30 am Shabbat Service, Helfant Chapel Candle lighting 8:36 pm Saturday, 7/7 ~ 24 Tammuz 10:00 am Youth Tefillah, Youth Lounge, then Lehman Center and Eisner Commons Havdalah 9:34 pm 12:15 pm Congregational Kiddush, Palkovitz Lobby 8:35 pm Minhah, Discussion, Ma’ariv, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm Helfant Chapel Yahrzeits FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 30 - JULY 6, 2018 17 - 23 TAMMUZ, 5778 The following Yahrzeits will be observed today and in the coming week. This list comprises those dear departed for whom there Saturday, June 30, 2018 are dedicated plaques in our praying spaces, and those for whom contributions have been made to have their names listed here. Havdalah 9:36 p.m. Youth Services Leon Adelson Henry B. Gorman Sarah Walkow London Edmond H. Siegel Friday and Saturday Leah Alpern Isak Greenberg Samuel Lowenthal Minnie K. Simon Betty Antman Benjamin Heller Louis Markley Israel Smolar 10:00-10:30 am - Gym is open before Max Bennett Harold Hendel Lena Markowitz Max Smolover Youth Tefillah. Dr Sol Z Caplan Ida Hilk Theresa Maria Neal Bessie Stein Early Morning Shabbat Service 6:30 am Anna Caplan Carl Max Janavitz Ben Ochs Yetta Stein Homestead Hebrew Chapel Infant - Kindergarten Mark Caplan Ruth Kaiserman Fruma Perchersky Sam Surloff with Manny Theiner Dr. Sol Z. Caplan Erwin Kalla Robert Platt Irwin Tobe 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Lena G Cohen Joseph Kanarek Rose W. Plung Samuel Trachtenberg rd Abraham B Cohen Max Kaplan Martin C Port Joseph G Tucker Hoffman & Zweig Libraries, 3 floor Robert Davidson Mary Kobell Leslie R. Price Jerome Veldenzer Shabbat Morning Service 9:30 am st th Rachel Deutch Morris Krell Ruth Rosenbloom Jack Wagman 1 - 4 Grade - Youth Tefillah Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Mariam Mendel Emerman Myrtle H Krickstein Daniel Rosenthal Sarah Weber rd Lena Estner Ethel Kwall Ethel Sachnoff Samuel Weber Eisner Commons, 2 floor Zozya Fifman Robert H Lang Jacob L Salzman Fannie Weil th th Anna Fisher Lewis Lever Margaret Schachter Gertrude Weisberg 5 - 6 Grade—Youth Tefillah 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Myron Friedlander Barbara Levinson Jacob Schwartz Wiliiam Williams Congregational Kiddush 12:15 pm nd Jacob Friedman Milton Levy Irving Schwartzman Elizabeth Zinman Homestead Hebrew Chapel, 2 floor Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Morris Glick Zetta Levy Hilda Z Shames Please refrain from using electronic Herbert Goldberg Harry Lieberman Rose Gertrude Shapiro devices in the synagogue during Shabbat. Ziporah Goldschmidt Shirley Loeb Rose Sheykhet Thank you. Morris Goldstein Joseph Loikrec Edward W. Shore Minhah, Discussion, Ma’ariv, Please look for this symbol inside 8:35 pm for info on accessible entrances at 5915 BEACON STREET ° PITTSBURGH, PA 15217 ° 412.421.2288 ° BETHSHALOMPGH.ORG Homestead Hebrew Chapel Beth Shalom. SHABBAT SHALOM Rabbi 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. Shabbat Services. We look forward to seeing you again soon. Who was Joseph Achron (1886-1943)? All are welcome to the congregational Kiddush, in the Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom If you were fortunate enough to attend the concert this past Monday, in which the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival, immediately following services. along with Chamber Music Pittsburgh, Rodef Shalom, and the UJF of Greater Pittsburgh, presented “Hebrew Melodies,” featuring Tehila Nini Goldstein, soprano, and various members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, you heard some seldom-heard music. And much of the music presented was by Joseph Achron. Samuel Zerin, who wrote a biography of OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY Achron and who founded the Joseph Achron Society and has been curating some of Achron’s works, educated the crowd a bit, and gave us some history. (He also taught us about Doubly Chromatic Mediant Chord Progressions, such as G minor to E♭ minor, which Achron used, as has John Williams more recently.) Thanks to Mr. Zerin for much of this Condolences to information. (The Jewish Encyclopedia supplemented, and says that brother Isidor played piano and composed, as well.) Ed and Iris Smith on the passing of his sister Susan L. (Smith) Feldman. When Mr. Achron, born in Lozdzieje, Suwalki, was two years old, he composed his first melody on a home-made violin. By age 10 he was on concert tours of Russia, and performed at a birthday party for the Czar’s brother. In 1899 he enrolled at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and studied with Leopold Auer, whose students also included Jascha Heifetz, Refuah Shelemah to Efrem Zimbalist, Nathan Milstein, and Misha Elman (almost the song by George Gershwin, “Mischa, Jascha, Toscha & Sascha”!). In 1911, Achron was approached by the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music (they advocated Jewish Arlene Shapiro. style in classical music), pursuant to which overture Achron wrote his most famous piece, “Hebrew Melody,” Op. 33, for violin and piano. After WWI, in which he served as a performer for front-line Russian troops, Achron toured giving over 1,000 concerts through Russia, Europe, and the Middle East, wrote a treatise on playing chromatic scales, and attempted to settle in Please Contribute to the Sisterhood Flower Fund Palestine (1924), but ended up in New York, where he was hailed as a composer, but no one seemed to know he also performed. (In fact, the Jewish Encyclopedia does not even mention it.) So Achron wrote music for Yiddish plays and Please contribute to those beautiful flowers on special days in our praying spaces. was commissioned to compose Evening Service for the Sabbath for Temple Emanu-El (1932) (where your corre- spondent’s cousin Benny Levite was a cantor around that time!). Achron became friendly with the Heifetz-Gershwin- Schoenberg crowd, and moved to Hollywood to compose for movies. Please Sponsor Learning... In the economic upheaval of the Russian Revolution and the World Wars, his publishers in Europe went out of business. In the 1930s Achron was blacklisted by the Nazis, thus killing anything published by Universal Edition. And American Rabbi Adelson has purchased a limited number (18) of the new Pirkei Avot Lev Shalem: The Wisdom of our desire to assimilate seems to have turned American Jews away from Jewish notes in classical music, at least expressly. Sages, put out by the Rabbinical Assembly, and he is eagerly looking forward to studying with the congrega- The Joseph Achron Society is publishing his manuscripts now. And the bigger local news is that the musicians of tion. Study with these books will continue some Saturday afternoons, after Minhah. Monday evening will be producing a recording, available for purchase, right here in Pittsburgh. Please call the office to make your donations for honors and memorials for these books. OUR LEADERSHIP Volunteer to Help with Kiddush! Really, we need YOU! Clergy Officers Please volunteer to help make the Kiddush happen - setup, cleanup, everything in between. Rabbi Seth Adelson, Ext. 115, [email protected] Deborah Firestone, President, Ext. 106 Rabbi Mark Staitman, Rabbinic Scholar Ria David, Vice President We especially need volunteers for Joe Jolson, Vice President July 14th Staff Arlene Shapiro, Vice President July 21st Rob Menes, Executive Director, Ext. 226, [email protected] Mitch Dernis, Treasurer Please contact Michelle Vines, at 412-421-2288 x113, or [email protected]. Dale Caprara, Controller, Ext. 109 Steve Albert, Secretary Anthony Colaizzi, Communications & Design Manager, Ext. 108 Auxiliary Presidents Audrey Glickman, Rabbi’s Assistant, Ext. 112, [email protected] Liron Lipinsky, JJEP Director, Ext. 323 Ira Frank, Men’s Club Say “Happy Birthday” and Help the Shul Rabbi Jeremy Markiz, Director of Derekh and Y outh Tefillah, Ext. 111 Judy Kornblith Kobell, Sisterhood Amallia Rascoe, USY For each month, in advance, we produce a list of coming birthdays among our fellow Jennifer Slattery, Early Learning Center Director, Ext. 290 congregants. The list is available in our office and also online. On the back of the list is a place Marissa Tait, Y outh Programs Director, Ext. 463 Honorary President to order birthday greetings to be sent from the shul to the individuals you circle on the other side of Lonnie Wolf, Cemetery Director, Ext. 293 Ruth Ganz Fargotstein the page. You can even stash some cash in your account
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