THE WEEK AT A GLANCE 8:00 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, 10:00 am Catering Committee Meeting, Lehman Center LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH Sunday, 1/26 ~ 29 Tevet 1:00 pm Panel Discussion, “The Spiritual Health of the Jewish Family in the Scholar-In-Residence Weekend 21st Century,” Eisner Commons 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 8:30 pm Online Parashah Study Group - Textual, Zoom Video Call Shabbat Shalom! 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 28 Tevet, 5780 Monday, 1/27 ~ 1 Shevat 9:15 am Talmud Study, Lehman Center 6:00 pm Bylaws Committee, Steindel Library This week’s parashah is Vaera. Rosh Hodesh Shevat 6:00 pm Kadima Lounge, Shear Youth Lounge United Nations Holocaust 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel Remembrance Day 7:15 pm Latin Cardio, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 7:30 pm Civil Rights Information Session, Eisner Commons 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 4:15 pm J-JEP, Classrooms Tuesday, 1/28 ~ 2 Shevat 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 pm Membership Committee Meeting, Remote via Hangouts 8:30 pm Special Online Parashah Study Group - Torah and Modern Life, Zoom 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Friday, January 24, 2020 Youth Services Wednesday, 1/29 ~ 3 Shevat 12:15 pm Life and Text: Weekly Parashah Study, Lehman Center 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel Candle lighting 5:10 p.m. Saturday 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Hod veHadar Instrumental Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm Thursday, 1/30 ~ 4 Shevat 4:15 pm J-JEP, Classrooms Weinberg Pavilion 10:00-10:30 am - Meet in 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel the Shear Youth Lounge Shabbat Dinner with Rabbi Jeffrey Schein 7:00 pm Friday, 1/31 ~ 5 Shevat 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel or Rice Gym. Candle lighting 5:18 pm 6:00 pm Kabbalat Shabbat, Helfant Chapel Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Toddler - Pre-K 6:30 am Early Morning Shabbat Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Saturday, January 25, 2020 Family Shabbat Service 9:15 am Sisterhood Shabbat Morning Service, Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Zweig, Hoffman, and Stofman Libraries Saturday, 2/1 ~ 6 Shevat 10:00 am Youth Tefillah, Meet in Shear Youth Lounge, then to respective services Havdalah 6:11 p.m. Sisterhood Shabbat 12:15 pm Congregational Kiddush, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom nd Havdalah 6:20 pm 4:50 pm Minhah, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Early Morning Shabbat Service 6:30 am Mini-Minyan, Pre-K - 2 Grade 5:15 pm Se’udah Shelishit, in the Eisner Commons Homestead Hebrew Chapel Family Shabbat Service 6:00 pm Ma’ariv, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Zweig, Hoffman, and Stofman Libraries Shabbat Morning Service, including Baby Naming for May & Ari Chester 9:30 am 3rd - 5th Grade Youth Tefillah Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Yahrzeits FOR THE WEEK OF JAN. 25 - 31, 2020 28 TEVET - 5 SHEVAT, 5780 Youth Lounge, 4th floor 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. Family Shabbat Service for Parents and Children Up to Nine Years Old 10:45 am Genia Adelsman Catherine Fisher Rose Jacobson Taube Lipshitz Oscar Robbins Ida Surloff Julius Allon William Fisher Sara R. Jacobson Motke Lipshitz Mollie Robinson Cylvia Belle Tanowitz Zweig, Hoffman, and Stofman Libraries Sunday, January 26, 2020 Minnie Altshuler Adolph Freed Perry L. Jubelirer David Markham Goldie B. Rofey Louis Tenenouser Harry N. Bailiss Paul Freedman Bessie Closky Judd Litman Louis Rosenbloom Jennie Walk Congregational K iddush, sponsored in part in Scholar-In-Residence Rachel Baker Sam Gerson Samuel H. Kalson Eugene M. Litman Louis Rosensweig Mathilda S. Weiss honor of the naming of Evelyn (Eva) Ches- Continues Celia F. Barach B. T. Glick A. Daniel Kaufman Stephan Lee Max Roth Clara Werner ter by Ari & May Chester as well as sisters Panel Discussion, “The Spir- Aron Bardenstein Philip Goldblum Eileen Keller Marcovsky Eva Sarnoff Israel J. Williams Sara and Rachel 12:15 pm Marvin Barent Sara Goldenberg Joseph Klein Henry Markowitz Harry J. Saul Norman Wolovitz itual Health of the Jewish Louis Bazarow Phyllis B. Green Louis G. Kramer Sarah E. Marlin Leue Schandler Meyer Wortzman Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Family in the 21st Century 1:00 pm Jack Berman Joseph H. Greenberg Rae Kubitz E. Harry Mazerov Rose Schwartz Eisner Commons Sigmund Block Isadore Greenberg Isaac Landis Louis Mermelstein Bernice Semins Shabbat Shi’ur - Rabbi Jeffrey Schein - “Text Paul Carpe Max Greenfield Anna Broidy Lazarus Wilbert Newman Martin Simon Me: Ancient Jewish Wisdom Meets Con- temporary Technology” 12:45 pm Anna Clasky Meyer Hersh Gross Chaim Lempert Rose Noon Israel Skirboll Please refrain from using Irving E. Cohen Joseph Grossman Ida R. Levenson Harold J. Pasekoff Natalie Mandell Smith Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Joel Cohen Julius Grumet Charles Levine David Perelman Katie Smolar electronic devices in the Morris Cohen Herman Halpern Pearl Levine Bernice Pilch Albert Smolover Minhah 4:40 pm synagogue during Shabbat R. Oscar Cohen Victoria Henderson Samuel Levine Meyer Popkins Benjamin I. Stein Homestead Hebrew Chapel and holidays. Sara T. Davidson Joseph Herzbrun Mildred L. Levy Dorothy Rabin Elder H. Stein Thank you. Rose Deemer Sonia Hoffman Sylvia Lieberman Freada Rabner Morton Stein Se’udah Shelishit 5:05 pm Abraham J. Epstein Bernard Huttner Katie Lincoff Ryna Radbord Rachmiel Stein Eisner Commons Abe E. Fineman Benjamin Jacobson Jacob Linder Louis Ress Albert J. Supowitz Please look for this symbol inside Ma’ariv 5:50 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. services. We look forward to seeing you again soon. What Was the Jewish Influence in the ?

All are welcome to the congregational kiddush, sponsored in part in honor of the The Algonquin Round Table was literally a big round table in the restaurant of the Algonquin Hotel at 59 West 44th naming of Evelyn (Eva) Chester by Ari & May Chester as well as sisters Sara Street in New York. But its legend goes much further than furniture. A little over 100 years ago, the literati of New York began lunching together. It began as a welcome home to theatre critic , returning from WWI. They & Rachel, immediately following services in the Samuel and Minnie Hyman pushed together two square tables to roast him. They had so much fun, they continued to lunch almost daily until the Ballroom. 1930s. (The actual round table came in 1920.) The group varied, but almost always included Woollcott, who postured as presiding over the unruly and noncompliant This week’s Se’udah Shelishit will be sponsored by an anonymous donor. group. Joining him were Pittsburgh-born playwright George S. Kaufman, writer , founders of The New Yorker Harold Ross and Jane Grant, writer/humorist Robert Benchley, playwrights Robert E. Sherwood, Edna Ferber (who referred to this group as “the Poison Squad”), Charlie MacArthur, Ben Hecht, and (McKeesport native) Marc Connelly, comedian , composers George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, critic , journalist Ruth OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY Hale, columnist Franklin P. Adams, journalist Donald Ogden Stewart, writer Alice Duer Miller, artist Neysa McMein, screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, reporter Herbert Bayard Swope, Harper’s Bazaar editor Art Samuels, and Farewell to miscellaneous visitors such as Tallulah Bankhead and Noel Coward. And they were tough, wielding whetted wit against one another and upon the targets of their scrutiny - the latest play, the latest book, the latest column, the latest act of war. Carole Salisbury, who will not be serving as Beth Shalom’s bookkeeper after all, but But to the question at hand, not so many of them were Jewish. Your correspondent suspects the question comes out of on her departure, with gratitude for her brief stay, wishes us the best. the perceived Jewish flavor of the wit of then-current New York City, which nearly all of them demonstrated. Outstanding Jews among them were George S. Kaufman, Edna Ferber, Ben Hecht, Harpo Marx, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Herman Mankiewicz. Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild - Jewish father, Scottish mother) lost her mother when she was five years old, and her father remarried. The rest of her life was not easy; she lived by her wits and her wit. Working at Vogue magazine, she wrote the photo caption “Brevity is the soul of lingerie.” She wrote much, much more. Most memorable is the line “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.” She would become a defender of equality, and left her estate to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Foundation. Jewish George S. Kaufman once said, “I can trace my ancestors all the way to the Crusades - Sir Roderick Kaufman. He IMPORTANT: Stand up for the values and strength of the Conservative went as a spy, of course.” Movement in Israel by casting your ballot in January for MERCAZ, the Non-Jew Marc Connelly later said of the group, “We all lived rather excitedly and passionately.” “champions of progress & pluralism.” We look forward to your questions. We have these columns online at http://bethshalompgh.org/ive-always-wondered/ . Vote for delegates to the World Zionist Congress, and encourage others to do so as well. Clergy OUR LEADERSHIPStaff Text “VOTE” to 917-336-1162 or go to www.Mercaz2020.org. 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 Anthony Colaizzi, Communications & Design Executive Officers Manager, Ext. 108 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 Volunteer to Help with Kiddush! Really, we need YOU! Alan Kopolow, Vice President Kate Kim, Assistant J-JEP Director, Ext. 323 Please volunteer to help make the Kiddush - shopping, food prep, setup, cleanup, everything in between. Jordan Fischbach, Vice President Hilary Yeckel, Early Learning Center Dir., Ext. 390 Rosie Valdez, ELC Administrator Please contact Michelle Vines, at 412-421-2288 x113, or [email protected]. Fred Newman, Treasurer Dan Eisner, Secretary Marissa Tait, Dir. of Youth Programming, Ext. 463 David Horvitz, Past President Ethan Einhorn, Kadima Youth Advisor Adi Kadosh, BSUSY Youth Advisor Se’udah Shelishit / Third Shabbat Meal Auxiliary Presidents Michelle Vines, Events Coordinator, Ext. 113 Every Shabbat afternoon from Oct. 19 until Pesah, we dine together at se’udah shelishit (the third Shabbat Ira Frank, Men’s Club Lonnie Wolf, Cemetery Director, Ext. 293 meal). Free to attend; all are welcome. We meet in the Eisner Commons, starting one and a half hours before Judy Kornblith Kobell, Sisterhood Tika Bonner, Receptionist, Ext. 114 havdalah time (check this Bulletin or the website for the schedule). We are seeking sponsors, please! Elana Kolko, USY Carole Salisbury, Bookkeeper, Ext. 110 To sponsor the a third meal, please contact Ira Frank: 412-281-4064 or [email protected] LOCATING THE MOST ACCESSIBLE ENTRANCE Palkovitz Lobby, Helfant Chapel, ELC, Front Offices: Enter at Beacon Street (or Rear Parking Lot Entrance with key) Kiddush Sponsorship Eisner Commons, Homestead Hebrew Chapel: Enter at Beacon Street, take elevator to 2nd floor Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary: Enter at Beacon Street, take elevator to 3rd floor Celebrating a simhah or honoring the memory of a loved one? To sponsor a catered Kiddush, Shear Youth Lounge, Rice Auditorium: Enter at Beacon Street, take elevator to 4th floor contact Michelle Vines, at 412-421-2288 x113, or [email protected] Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom: Enter at Shady Avenue Sisterhood Shabbat - NEXT WEEK! SHABBAT - 28 TEVET 5780 February 1, 2020 PARASHAT VAERA Sisterhood Shabbat celebrates the women in our congregation and Etz presents an opportunity for all of us to learn together. Aliyah Verses Readers Hertz Hayim The speaker will be Danielle Kranjec, Senior Jewish Educator at Hillel-JUC. Exodus 6:2-5 Ari Chester 232 351 ראשון A member of Beth Shalom, Danielle previously worked with the 1st Ari Chester 233 352 6:6-9 שני Agency for Jewish Learning, and holds an MA in Medieval Jewish Studies 2nd from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Ari Chester 233 353 6:10-13 שלישי This year we honor Pat Weiss, Marlene Behrmann Cohen, and Ilanit Helfand. 3rd Mitch Dernis 234 354 6:14-19 רביעי Please plan to join us for the service and for lunch. 4th S Mitch Dernis 234 355 6:20-25 חמישי If you are interested in having a part in the service, 5th I please contact Helen Feder with your name, email address, and phone number, whether you Marlene Behrmann Cohen 235 355 6:26-28 ששי S prefer Hebrew or English parts or non-speaking parts, or if you want to do something 6th Marlene Behrmann Cohen 235 356 7:7 - 6:29 שביעי specific. Helen may be reached by email at [email protected] (please put “Sisterhood 7th T Shabbat 2020” into the subject line) or by phone at 412-521-2797. Marlene Behrmann Cohen 236 357 7:5-7 מפטיר E Maftir Financial donations are also welcome, please, through Ezekiel 28:25 - 29:21 Ari Chester 244 370 הפטרה R http://tinyurl.com/SisterhoodShabbat5780. Haftarah H O Devar Torah to be offered by Seth Goldstein. O Sisterhood Judaica Shop - Great Gifts! D Open Friday 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (except holidays), or by appointment Barbara Kaiserman, 412-422-5677 January - 30% off all in-house tallitot and kippot

Sisterhood Book Club The Sisterhood Book Club will discuss Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli Divrei Hashavua — Words of the Week Thursday, February 27, at 7:30 p.m., at Dina’s home.

Shabbat Across America Congregational Dinner Friday, February 28, 7:00 p.m. Congregational Dinner, ma’avidim following Hod veHadar Instrumental Kabbalat Shabbat at 6:00. Sponsored by Men’s Club and Sisterhood $25 per adult; $10 per child (12 and under). RSVP by 2/21/2020, please. vehotzeti Sign up online: https://tinyurl.com/DinnerFebruary5780 vehitzal’ti

Congregational Over 21 Purim Party mattehu Men’s Club and Sisterhood are hosting an Over 21 Purim Party for the congregation starting 6:00 p.m. on March 8. tannin The party will include a light dinner, a bar, music, dancing, and games. Watch for details coming soon.

UPCOMING EVENTS Please note change of date for Beth Shalom: Feb. 18th at Beth Shalom, For additional information, please see the flyers in the racks, or go to our website. Feb. 11th Downtown at David Horvitz’ office, 535 Smithfield Street Check the calendar on our website for daily event information Discussing the roots of egalitarianism in Conservative Judaism, including the landmark at http://www.bethshalompgh.org teshuvah “On the Ordination of Women as Rabbis” from 1984 by Rabbi Joel Roth. Please register for Sq. Hill classes at http://bethshalompgh.org/lunchandlearn/ To include lunch in your registration for the Lunch and Learn classes that are at Beth Shalom, you must register by noon on the Friday prior to the class. We are honored to spend a weekend with Rabbi Jeffrey Schein and (Lunch cannot be ordered for downtown, but may be taken with you. Registration not required.) Dr. Deborah Schein discussing Jewish Spirituality in the 21st century. Friday evening (reservations for dinner after service now closed), Saturday morning, with special added Family Shabbat service for parents and children up to nine years old, Shabbat Shi’ur at 12:45 “Text Me: Ancient Jewish Wisdom Meets Contemporary Technology” by Rabbi Jeffrey Schein, and Sunday at 1:00 a panel Next Discussion Service will be Feb. 22 at 10:30 a.m., in the Weinberg Pavilion. discussion “The Spritual Health of the Jewish Family in the 21st Century.” Rabbi Adelson leads a discussion-oriented service for all ranges of davener, Please see bethshalompgh.org/scholars-schein/. from the uninitiated to the veterans. We seek meaning behind the words, and personal connections within tefillah. Free; all are welcome. This year’s theme is “The Intertextuality of Tefillah.” The February service topic is “The Languages of Tefillah.”

Learn about the upcoming Derekh Civil Rights Journey April 26-28. among Judaism, technology, and the spirituality of our children. Textual Analysis: Sundays at 8:30 p.m. Torah & Modern Life: Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. For info, contact Rabbi Jeremy Markiz at [email protected]. Dig into the language of the parashah A wide-ranging discussion on how Torah and unpack a difficult section of Torah. affects our modern life, beliefs, and practice. Join these lay-led discussion groups! All classes meet online. No Hebrew knowledge required. Interested in either or both? Contact [email protected]

Sunday, February 16, 10:00 a.m. - Julie Orringer—The Flight Portfolio Men’s Club Sports Luncheon “Bighearted, gorgeous, historical, suspenseful, everything you want a novel to be” (—Andrew Sean Sunday, February 9, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less), a new book inspired by the World War II story you’ve Hamburger and hot dog lunch in the Ballroom. Local sports celebrities! never heard—the real-life quest of an unlikely hero to save the lives and work Autographs and surprises! Gifts for all! All are welcome, no charge! of Europe’s great minds from the impending Holocaust. Book signing follows. M C Please RSVP by January 29, 2020, to Ira Frank at [email protected]. Further information at bethshalompgh.org/speakerseries E L N U ’ B S World Wide Wrap - Wrap & Roll! Sunday, February 2, at Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Avenue, and around the world! Tefillin Workshop at 10:30 a.m., All-School Tefillah Service at 11:30 a.m. All are invited! Cost is free! Bring your tefillin. (Extra sets will be available. Please Monday mornings at 9:15 a.m. Rabbi Jeremy Markiz learns Massekhet Rosh Hashanah, a consider donating any extra sets to our school and our minyanim. tractate of the Talmud about the many new years that fill out the Jewish calendar. To join Questions, email Kate at [email protected]. Talmud Class Google Group, go to https://groups.google.com/d/forum/talmudcbs

C Old Jewish-Organization Pittsburgh-Area Cookbooks O - M I Our friends at the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center are this year collecting old M T Jewish-organization cookbooks published in western Pennsylvania. U Y To contribute a cookbook to the collection, please contact Eric Lidji at 12:15 p.m. Wednesdays - Bring the parashah alive and make it N [email protected]. Then bring your books to Audrey Glickman, personally relevant and meaningful with Rabbi Mark Goodman! Beth Shalom Rabbi’s Assistant, with your name and address attached.