THE WEEK AT A GLANCE 8:00 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, Sunday, 1/19 ~ 22 Tevet 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH 8:30 pm Online Parashah Study Group - Textual, Zoom Video Call Monday, 1/20 ~ 23 Tevet 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Martin Luther King, Jr., Day 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel ELC is closed. Office is closed. Shabbat Shalom! 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 21 Tevet, 5780 4:15 pm J-JEP, Classrooms Tuesday, 1/21 ~ 24 Tevet 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 pm Board of Trustees Meeting, Zweig Library This week’s parashah is Shemot. 8:30 pm Special Online Parashah Study Group - Torah and Modern Life, Zoom 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 12:15 pm Life and Text: Weekly Parashah Study, Lehman Center Friday, January 17, 2020 Youth Services Wednesday, 1/22 ~ 25 Tevet 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 pm Jewish and Black Jam Session, Stofman and Zweig Libraries Candle lighting 5:02 p.m. Saturday 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm 4:15 pm J-JEP, Classrooms 10:00-10:30 am - Meet in Thursday, 1/23 ~ 26 Tevet 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel Helfant Chapel the Shear Youth Lounge 7:30 pm How To Be An Antiracist Book Club Meeting, Eisner Commons Jews For Justice Dinner 7:00 pm or Rice Gym. Friday, 1/24 ~ 27 Tevet 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Scholar-In-Residence Weekend 6:00 pm Hod veHadar Instrumental Kabbalat Shabbat, Helfant Chapel Toddler - Pre-K with Manny Theiner Candle lighting 5:10 pm 7:00 pm Shabbat Dinner with Rabbi Jeffrey Schein, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Jews For Justice 1st - 5th Grade Dinner 7:00 pm Hoffman & Zweig Libraries, 3rd floor 6:30 am Early Morning Shabbat Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Eisner Commons 9:30 am Shabbat Morning Service, Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Mini-Minyan, Pre-K - 2nd Grade Saturday, 1/25 ~ 28 Tevet 10:00 am Youth Tefillah, Meet in Shear Youth Lounge, then to respective services Jews For Justice Pre-K - K Dinner 7:00 pm Youth Tefillah 10:45 am Family Shabbat Service for Parents & Children up to Nine Years Old, TBA 11:15 am - 12:00 pm Scholar-In-Residence Weekend 12:15 pm Congregational Kiddush, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Eisner Commons Baby Naming for May & Ari 12:45 pm Shabbat Shi’ur - Rabbi Jeffrey Schein - “Text Me: Ancient Jewish Wisdom Homestead Hebrew Chapel Chester Meets Contemporary Technology,” Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Jews For Justice Pre-K - K After-Dinner 7:30 pm rd th Havdalah 6:11 pm 3 - 5 Grade Youth Tefillah 4:40 pm Minhah, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Preschool 10:30 am - 12:00 pm 5:05 pm Se’udah Shelishit, in the Eisner Commons th 5:50 pm Ma’ariv, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Jews For Justice Pre-K - 5th Grade After-Dinner 8:15 pm Youth Lounge, 4 floor Rice Gym

Yahrzeits FOR THE WEEK OF JAN. 18 - 24, 2020 21 - 27 TEVET, 5780 The following Yahrzeits will be observed today and in the coming week. This list comprises those dear departed for whom there Saturday, January 18, 2020 are dedicated plaques in our praying spaces, and those for whom contributions have been made to have their names listed here. Fania A. Abramkina Juel Farkas Max E. Kaufman Belle Roth Harry Spector Havdalah 6:03 p.m. Isadore Adelsman David Fingeret Edith Kertman Morton Rubin Milton Stein Nathan Louis Adler Paul Foreman Elizabeth H. Kramer Kate Sable Ralph Steinberg Early Morning Shabbat Service 6:30 am Ida S. Amdur Genevieve Freiser Fonda Floris Kurtz Berel Louis Sachs Norbert Stern Homestead Hebrew Chapel David Avner Gertrude K. Friedlander Abe Laufe Herman Joseph Sahl David Stuart David Bachner Irving Friedman Joel D. Launer Mina Salem Virginia Tanur Shabbat Morning Service 9:30 am Jacobo Baron Isadore L. Friedman Sol Lieber Blanche Schnitzer Morris Topolsky Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Simon Beigel Celia Goldberg Murray S. Love Samuel L. Schnitzer Anna Trau Dora Bennett Ruth Goldberg Sara Marmins Lawrence Schuster Mae S. Wagner Congregational K iddush 12:15 pm Leon Bluestone Daniel David Gottlieb Blanche Mazur David Shapiro Lena Waltuch Nathalia D. Buchman Esther R. Greenberg Jennie Miller Isadore Sherman Michael M. Wolfe Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Jesse Carlis Vivien S. Greenberg Mendel Miller Samuel Sherman Meyer Yoselovitz Please refrain from using Esther P. Cohen Malye Hausrath Rose Mirskey Essie Shore Jeanette R. Young New Tunes Workshop 12:45 pm electronic devices in the Esther R. Cohen Ethel Tucker Heiss Pauline Moravitz Ida Shurin Charles Zalevsky Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom synagogue during Shabbat Bessie Coltin Richard S. Heitner Louis B. Moritz Bernard Siegel Harry Leonard Zionts and holidays. Jacob B. Coltun William Henry Bessie Pudles William N. Silverman Milton Zlotnik Minhah 4:30 pm Thank you. Abraham N. Cooperman Abrahm C. Hepps Eva Regenstein Freida G. Singer Homestead Hebrew Chapel Margaret H. B. Edelman Ida Hertz Chuck Rosen Esthyr N. Slesnick Charles Elbling Arnold Huttner Rachel Rosen Samuel H. Smith Se’udah Shelishit 4:55 pm Harry S. Farber Nellie Jaffee Sara Rosen Rachael Smolar Eisner Commons William R. Fargotstein Bernard S. Kamins Ben Rosenbloom Sam Solow Please look for this symbol inside Ma’ariv 5:40 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 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. What Did Ida Cohen Rosenthal Do of Note?

All are welcome to the congregational kiddush, immediately following services in the The Jewish Women’s Archive reminded us to celebrate on Jan. 9 the birth in 1886 near Minsk in Russia of Ida Kaganovitch (later Cohen). At age 16 Ida went off to Warsaw to work as a dressmaker and study math and Russian in the evenings. At age Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom. 18, she immigrated to New Jersey with her sister Ethel. Being impecunious made her uncomfortable, so she bought a Singer sewing machine on installments and opened a shop in Hoboken as a seamstress. In 1906 she married William Rosenthal, already This week’s Se’udah Shelishit will be sponsored by Anonymous in appreciation of the an early ready-to-wear manufacturer. By 1918 they had moved the shop to Washington Heights and employed 20 seamstresses. rabbi’s tisch. Business boomed during WWI, and in the 1920s Ida and William and their new business partner Enid Bisset opened a custom dress shop, naming it Enid Frocks. Now, this was the time of the flappers and the look was “boy form.” But the shop owners didn’t like making dresses to fit over bound-up ladies’ chests. So they invented a new undergarment to support and separate, OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY differentiating the appearance of their dresses from those “boy forms.” They called it “maiden form.” The new company was originally the Enid Manufacturing Company, and they gave away their undergarments when folks bought individually-made dresses. Soon, though, the popularity of the underwear out-stripped outerwear and they gave up dressmaking. Refuah Shelemah to In 1928, they sold 500,000 units of their undergarments. In 1930, the company was renamed the Maiden Form Brassiere Company. By the end of the 1930s, their products were in department stores around the world. Ms. Bisset retired, and the Dee Selekman, as she wows (we imagine) the physical ther apists with her powers and Rosenthals ran the company together, with William working on design and creating new products (for soon-to-be and new mothers, for instance) and inventing the sizing system still used today, while Ida ran the business including union negotiations abilities. and creating assembly-lines. (In 1930 their son Lewis, born 1907, passed away; their daughter Beatrice had been born in 1916.) It was Ida who made the company the first intimate-apparel company to advertise widely. In 1949, they launched their ad cam- paign, “I dreamed I …___… in my Maidenform bra,” showing such possibilities as “drove a chariot,” “‘went to blazes’ as a firefighter,” “won the election,” and “barged down the Nile.” The campaign ran for 20 years, right into the bra-burning genera- tion. Ida ran the company with a firm hand. Under five feet tall, she commanded others to sit when addressing her. Time magazine in 1960 quoted her, “Quality we give them. Delivery we give them. I add personality.” Ida oversaw business in over 100 countries, and in 1963 visited the Soviet Union in an industrial study exchange team. She was active in nonprofits, as well, and she and William founded Boy Scout Camp Lewis in NJ, and established NYU’s Judaica and Hebraica Library, among many other accomplishments. (Her father and brothers also would become successful in A. Cohen & Sons in New York, selling clocks, silverware, and cut glass.) William Rosenthal passed away in 1958, and Ida became the president and later also chair of the board. After a stroke in 1966 she stayed on as honorary chair until she passed away on IMPORTANT: Stand up for the values and strength of the Conservative March 29, 1973. Their daughter Beatrice inherited the company, which is now run by Ida’s granddaughter Elizabeth Coleman. Movement in Israel by casting your ballot in January for MERCAZ, the Your correspondent would like to think Ida might have been open to installing a pocket or three. “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 Shabbat Across America Congregational Dinner SHABBAT - 21 TEVET 5780 Friday, February 28, 7:00 p.m. Congregational Dinner, PARASHAT SHEMOT following Hod veHadar Instrumental Kabbalat Shabbat at 6:00. Sponsored by Men’s Club and Sisterhood Etz $25 per adult; $10 per child (12 and under). RSVP by 2/21/2020, please. Aliyah Verses Readers Hertz Hayim Sign up online: https://tinyurl.com/DinnerFebruary5780 Exodus 1:1-7 Ilanit Helfand 206 317 ראשון 1st Ilanit Helfand 206 318 1:8-12 שני Congregational Over 21 Purim Party 2nd Ilanit Helfand 208 319 1:13-17 שלישי Men’s Club and Sisterhood are hosting an Over 21 Purim Party 3rd for the congregation starting 6:00 p.m. on March 8. Ilanit Helfand 208 320 1:18-22 רביעי The party will include a light dinner, a bar, music, dancing, and games. 4th Ilanit Helfand 209 321 2:1-10 חמישי Watch for details coming soon. 5th Ilanit Helfand 211 323 2:11-15 ששי Sisterhood Shabbat 6th Ken Turkewitz 212 325 2:16-25 שביעי February 1, 2020 7th Ken Turkewitz 212 325 2:23-25 מפטיר Sisterhood Shabbat celebrates the women in our congregation and Maftir Isaiah 27:6 - 28:13; 29:22-23 Carol Turkewitz 225 343 הפטרה presents an opportunity for all of us to learn together. Haftarah The speaker will be Danielle Kranjec, Senior Jewish Educator at Hillel-JUC. A member of Beth Shalom, Danielle previously worked with the Agency for Jewish Learning, and holds an MA in Medieval Jewish Studies Devar Torah to be offered by Chris Hall. from the Jewish Theological Seminary. This year we honor Pat Weiss, Marlene Behrmann Cohen, and Ilanit Helfand. Please plan to join us for the service and for lunch. If you are interested in having a part in the service, S please contact Helen Feder with your name, email address, and phone number, whether you I prefer Hebrew or English parts or non-speaking parts, or if you want to do something S specific. Helen may be reached by email at [email protected] (please put “Sisterhood T Shabbat 2020” into the subject line) or by phone at 412-521-2797. Financial donations are also welcome, please, through E http://tinyurl.com/SisterhoodShabbat5780. R Divrei Hashavua — Words of the Week H Sisterhood Judaica Shop - Great Gifts! O Open Friday 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (except holidays), O or by appointment D Barbara Kaiserman, 412-422-5677 January - 30% off all in-house tallitot and kippot shemot Sisterhood Book Club vayisheretzu The Sisterhood Book Club will discuss am benei Yisra’el Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli Thursday, February 27, at 7:30 p.m., at Dina’s home. son’eynu

ENJOY Books - LAST CHANCE! amatah The Sisterhood is selling Enjoy Books, $30. Please contact Dorothy Greenfield at 412-521-5217 for more information.

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. THIS SHABBAT! (Lunch cannot be ordered for downtown, but may be taken with you. Registration not required.) After kiddush, we will learn some new tunes which can be used in Shabbat morning services. If you want to sing along during services, but don’t always know the tunes, this is the perfect opportunity to learn! If you would like to receive emails with links to Next Discussion Service will be Feb. 22 at 10:30 a.m., in the Weinberg Pavilion. recordings of the tunes we will be learning, please email [email protected]. Rabbi Adelson leads a discussion-oriented service for all ranges of davener, from the uninitiated to the veterans. We seek meaning behind the words, and personal connections within tefillah. Music is a shared language through which we can connect on cultural intersections Free; all are welcome. This year’s theme is “The Intertextuality of Tefillah.” between Jewish and Black traditions. Bring your instrument and voice! The February service topic is “The Languages of Tefillah.” Future dates 2/19, 3/18, 4/29, at 7:30 p.m.

Reading Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s new book How to Be an Antiracist. 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. We are honored to spend a weekend with Rabbi Jeffrey Schein and Interested in either or both? Contact [email protected] Dr. Deborah Schein discussing Jewish Spirituality in the 21st century. Friday evening (reservations for dinner after service now closed), Saturday morning, Men’s Club Sports Luncheon with special added Family Shabbat service for parents and children up to nine years Sunday, February 9, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. old, Shabbat Shi’ur at 12:45 “Text Me: Ancient Jewish Wisdom Meets Hamburger and hot dog lunch in the Ballroom. Local sports celebrities! Contemporary Technology” by Rabbi Jeffrey Schein, and Sunday at 1:00 a panel M C Autographs and surprises! Gifts for all! All are welcome, no charge! discussion “The Spritual Health of the Jewish Family in the 21st Century.” E L Please RSVP by January 29, 2020, to Ira Frank at [email protected]. Please see bethshalompgh.org/scholars-schein/. N U ’ B World Wide Wrap - Wrap & Roll! S Sunday, February 2, at Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Avenue, and around the world! Learn about the upcoming Derekh Civil Rights Journey April 26-28. Tefillin Workshop at 10:30 a.m., All-School Tefillah Service at 11:30 a.m. among Judaism, technology, and the spirituality of our children. All are invited! Cost is free! Bring your tefillin. (Extra sets will be available. Please For info, contact Rabbi Jeremy Markiz at [email protected]. consider donating any extra sets to our school and our minyanim. Questions, email Kate at [email protected]. Sunday, February 16, 10:00 a.m. - Julie Orringer—The Flight Portfolio C Old Jewish-Organization Pittsburgh-Area Cookbooks “Bighearted, gorgeous, historical, suspenseful, everything you want a novel to be” (—Andrew Sean O - Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less), a new book inspired by the World War II story you’ve M I Our friends at the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center are this year collecting old never heard—the real-life quest of an unlikely hero to save the lives and work M T Jewish-organization cookbooks published in western Pennsylvania. of Europe’s great minds from the impending Holocaust. Book signing follows. To contribute a cookbook to the collection, please contact Eric Lidji at U Y [email protected]. Then bring your books to Audrey Glickman, N Beth Shalom Rabbi’s Assistant, with your name and address attached. 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 A & Jews For Justice: Dinner and Discussion Talmud Class Google Group, go to https://groups.google.com/d/forum/talmudcbs D Y Friday, January 17, 6:00 p.m. (with teen-led Shabbat service in Helfant Chapel) U O Our fourth annual award-winning Beth Shalom USY Jews For Justice! Tikkun Olam: What Does It Really Mean? L U One teen leader will facilitate dialogue between courses at each table. NEW TIME! T T Similar programming for children in K-5th grade and babysitting will 12:15 p.m. Wednesdays - Bring the parashah alive and make it be available upon reservation only. We are proud and excited to personally relevant and meaningful with Rabbi Mark Goodman! S H share a meal and important conversations with you!