THE WEEK AT A GLANCE 8:00 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “” ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, 11:00 am Youth Tzitzit Tying Program, Parking Lot LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH 12:00 pm Hebrew for Beginners (Derekh), by prior registration 12:30 pm Benei Workshop #3, Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Sunday, 5/2 ~ 20 Iyyar 2:00 pm Introduction to , by prior registration 4:00 pm Special Board of Trustees Meeting, Zoom 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” 7:30 pm The of American Jazz with Seth Kibel (Derekh), by prior registration 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 Study, Zoom 828-0765-0069 6:00 pm BSUSY Lounge, Zoom Monday, 5/3 ~ 21 Iyyar 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” 7:30 pm House Committee Meeting, Zoom Shalom! 7:45 pm Racial Justice Taskforce Meeting, Zoom 7:30 am Morning Service, In Person and on Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” 19 Iyyar, 5781 12:00 pm Lunch and Lear n - Prophet Amos, Zoom 921 4191 4671, passcode: “lunchlearn“ Tuesday, 5/4 ~ 22 Iyyar 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” This week’s parashah is Emor. 7:30 pm Executive Committee Meeting, Zoom 7:30 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Wednesday, 5/5 ~ 23 Iyyar 12:15 pm Life and Text: Weekly Parashah Study, Zoom 890-5460-0481 pass “717973” 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” 7:30 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Thursday, 5/6 ~ 24 Iyyar 7:00 pm Evening Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” 7:30 am Morning Service, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Friday, 5/7 ~ 25 Iyyar 5:15 pm Shababababa, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Candle lighting 8:04 pm 6:00 pm Kabbalat Shabbat, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Saturday, 5/8 ~ 26 Iyyar 9:15 am Shabbat Morning Service, Zoom from the Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary, Josephine Morgenstern and Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Raleigh Morgenstern become 11:00 am Youth Tefillah with Manny, Zoom Benot Mitzvah 8:15 pm Minhah / “Third Meal” / Ma’ariv, Zoom 943-2466-5900, passcode “minyan” Friday, April 30, 2021 Youth Services Havdalah 9:05 pm Candle lighting 7:56 p.m. Saturday

Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm Yahrzeits FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 1 - 7, 2021 19 - 25 IYYAR, 5781 Youth Tefillah Karaoke The following Yahrzeits will be observed today and in the coming week. This list comprises those dear departed for whom there Zoom webcast from the Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary are dedicated plaques in our praying spaces, and those for whom contributions have been made to have their names listed here. 10:00 am Henry L. Askenase Joseph Friedman Clara Sigal Kwall Pearl Recht Nathan Sukolsky Zoom webcast Malka Baran Moses J. Globus Joseph Lasday Paul Reiss Berta Taborinsky Miriam Barbalat Sol Goldstein Edith Rosen Launer Magda Robinson Katie Tanur Alexander Bardin Shaine M. Goldvarg Jacob H. Lembersky Rose Moseson Rott Jeffrey Vines Marjorie Beebe Esther Gusky Ruth Lessing Annabelle Rubenstein Kathi Weiss Ethel F. Berkson Joseph Gusky Max Levenson Bernice Rubenstein Martin Harry Winn Saturday, May 1, 2021 Rita S. Berliner Paul Gusky Rody Levin Meyer Rubenstein Larry Winsberg Havdalah 8:57 p.m. Youth Tefillah with Manny Theiner Miriam Bernstein Bessie N. Harris Irwin J. Levinson Laurel Rudavsky Sarah Zidman 11:00 am Sidney Blitz Irwin J. Harris Philip A. Levinson Rose F. Sachs Samuel Zukerman Zoom webcast Morris Browarsky Richard N. Harris, M.D. Betsy Levy Morris Samuels Ralph Cherelstein Selig Holzer Elizabeth Lieberman Israel Schultzman Shabbat Morning Service 9:30 am Ada H. Cohen Miriam Holzer Marian Liff Ada Freeman Shepard Czerna Cohen Rita Israel Sam Mazefsky Herbert Shire Zoom webcast from the Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Louis Colton Irwin Izenson Joe Melnick Morris J. Shutzberg Pauline Coslov Nathan Izenson Sara Irene Moltz Beatrice H. Sigel Jacob N. Daniels Saul P. Kardon Saul M. Morris Morris L. Silverblatt Please refrain from using William Dickerman Lewis Korn Daniel Neuman Ben Paul Simon personal electronic devices in the Sam Eckstein Samuel E. Kornblith William Platt Edwin Snider during Shabbat William Friedman Anna Kravitz Sarah R. Praszkier Norma Sobel and holidays. Minhah / Discussion / Ma’ariv 8:10 pm Thank you. 5915 BEACON STREET ° PITTSBURGH, PA 15217 ° 412.421.2288 ° BETHSHALOMPGH.ORG Zoom webcast from the Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary SHABBAT SHALOM The ’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 Theodor Herzl Do Besides Initiating Political ?

Theodor Herzl was born on May 2, 1860, to a family of German-speaking Jews in Budapest, Hungary. While still a OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY child, he moved with his family to Vienna, Austria. He would go on to receive a law degree from the University of Vienna. He became a journalist and playwright, creating about one play per year, most in the 1880s (mostly comedies). Ultimately within his 44-year life he would be credited with starting (or at least furthering) the Zionist initiative. Mazal Tov to: Until sometime around the 1894 treason trial of Alfred Dreyfus, Herzl felt that Jews should assimilate. At the time of the Dreyfus Affair, Herzl was serving as the Paris reporter for the Neue Freie Presse. In mid-October 1894, he reviewed a Cheryl Blumenfeld, Harold Blumenfeld and Sheryl Riddle, on the engagement of their production of the play La Femme de Claude by Alexandre Dumas (1873), and took exception with the Jewish character, son Brandon Michael Blumenfeld to Cassandra Maria Malis, to be wed in late October. who longed for a homeland. Herzl wrote that the character should have known that no homeland would be possible, that Brandon is the owner and founder of The Little Tailor, LLC, which manufactures and the wide variation in the dispersed Jews of the world would hinder the new country trying to come together. On October 21st, Herzl began writing a play, finishing The New Ghetto on November 8th. Dreyfus had been arrested on October distributes kreplach. 29th. Herzl may have been trying to write himself out of the haunting matter of where Jews should live, but his new play only served to reemphasize the issue. Thank You to: He would become convinced that Jews should establish a country after all, to reflect a Jewish response to the “Jewish Question” nefariously prevalent in anti-Semitic Europe at the time. In Der Judenstaat, The Jewish State, he contemplated Zarky Rudavsky for sponsoring this week’s Virtual Kiddush, in memory of his late creating a country in great detail, the location to be determined by those affected. He considered Palestine and Argentina, and later also approved the notion of eastern Africa. He felt that generally Jews often move to where we are not wife, Laurel Tobias Rudavsky, who passed away five years ago. persecuted, but that our very relocating to those places instigates hatred. This became the basis of his Zionism, his quest for a homeland. But we digress: what about that play writing career? Thank you also to Zarky for reading and the haftarah in memory of Franklin Toker, Herzl’s plays were produced in major theaters in Vienna. He initially created roughly one play per year. Most were light dear friend who passed away last week. This was Franklin Toker’s bar mitzvah portion. and amusing and successful. He wrote, inter alia, The Disillusioned (1883), Tabarin (1884), Mother’s Little Boy (1885 comedy), His Highness, a satire on the power of money in bourgeois society which evaluates all human beings according Yale & Barbara Rosenstein, for sponsoring this week’s Virtual Third Meal study to their possessions, and What Will People Say? (1889 comedy). Wish we could produce one in English or Hebrew now! However, in 1890 his The Lady in Black failed, just around the time his first child was born, which was also just before session (between Minhah and Ma’ariv Saturday toward the end of Shabbat), in memory of his close friend committed suicide. That was when he got himself a job as a reporter, early on covering and uncovering a their parents Thomas & Anna Rosenstein and Adolph & Adele Freed. scandal involving the Panama Canal Company. This fiscal scandal seemed to bring out the anti-Semites, as there were Jews involved in the double-dealing. All of this and the subsequent attacks on Jews in Paris ultimately fed into the play The New Ghetto. The play was published in serial form, and a production of it opened in early 1898 at the Karl Theater. It moved to Berlin and to Prague, but fell on harsh criticism, likely due to its oft-perceived neither-here-nor-there stance on anti-Semitism. Herzl apparently wrote a clear portrait of human beings, in which even the Jews (especially the wealthy) are flawed. One interesting line from the play, spoken by an assimilated main character, is “Jews, my brothers, they won’t let you live unless you learn to die!” We anticipate providing outdoor Shabbat and Yom Tov services beginning May 15, anticipating the We look forward to your questions. We have these columns online at http://bethshalompgh.org/ive-always-wondered/ . arrival of the new tent. Attendance will be by pre-registration, limit of 50 persons. Details to follow. Also, we will experiment with limited indoor services on Tuesday and Sunday mornings, beginning OUR LEADERSHIP May 4th, provided all attendees are fully vaccinated, and with masks, physical distancing, and Clergy Staff Rabbi Seth Adelson, Ext. 115 Ken Turkewitz, Interim Exec. Director, Ext. 226 temperature-taking still in effect. Please in advance show Tika, our receptionist, evidence of your Rabbi Mark Staitman, Rabbinic Scholar Robert Gleiberman, Incoming Exec. Director, Ext 226 vaccination, either by showing her in the office, or by emailing a photo of your card to Executive Officers Dale Caprara, Controller, Ext. 109 [email protected]. Deborah Firestone, President, Ext. 106 Kristin Zappone, Communications & Marketing Specialist, Ext. 108 Audrey Glickman, Rabbi’s Assistant, Ext. 112 All services will continue to be available on Zoom. Kate Rothstein, Executive Vice President Rabbi Andy Shugerman, Development Director, Ext. 317 Alan Kopolow, Vice President of Finance Rabbi Jeremy Markiz, Dir. of Derekh & Youth Tefillah, Ext. 111 Joseph Jolson, Vice President of Operations Rabbi Larry Freedman, J-JEP Director, Ext. 323 Mindy Shreve, Vice President of Member Engagement Kate Kim, Assistant J-JEP Director, Ext. 323 Jordan Fischbach, Vice President of Synagogue Life Hilary Yeckel, Early Learning Center Dir., Ext. 290 Adam Kolko, Vice President of Y outh Pam Stasolla, ELC Assistant Director, Ext. 390 Fred Newman, Treasurer Rosie Valdez, ELC Administrator, Ext. 100 The Annual Congregational Meeting will be Tuesday, May 25, at 7:45 p.m. Paul Teplitz, Secretary Marissa Tait, Dir. of Y outh Programming, Ext. 463 Topics covered will include the annual budget, approval of new officers and Board of David Horvitz, Immediate Past President Harris Jayson, Kadima Youth Advisor Adi Kadosh, BSUSY Youth Advisor Trustees members, and annual reports. Auxiliary Presidents Michelle Vines, Events Coordinator, Ext. 113 Meeting by Zoom. Ira Frank, Men’s Club Lonnie Wolf, Cemetery Director, Ext. 293 Judy Kornblith Kobell, Sisterhood Tika Bonner, Receptionist, Ext. 114 5915 BEACON STREET ° PITTSBURGH, PA 15217 ° (P) 412.421.2288 ° BETHSHALOMPGH.ORG Ori Cohen, USY Amira Walker, Bookkeeper, Ext. 110 SHABBAT - MAY 1, 2021 - 19 IYYAR 5781 M C Sweepstakes Tickets Are On Sale E L Men’s Club 2021 Sweepstakes tickets are available now, at $50 each. PARASHIYOT EMOR N U Drawing every Friday, through November, based on PA Lottery number. ’ B Tickets must be paid to win! Chance to win twice each week. Verses Readers Hertz Etz Hayim S Over the eight days of Hanukkah there will be 16 chances to win! Leviticus 22:17-20 Zarky Rudavsky 517 722 ראשון Contact Ira Frank for tickets, 412-849-2937 or [email protected]. 1st Zarky Rudavsky 517 722 -25 22:21 שני 2nd Zarky Rudavsky 518 723 -33 22:26 שלישי Sisterhood Judaica Shop - Great Gifts! 3rd Zarky Rudavsky 519 724 -3 23:1 רביעי 4th S Open by appointment Zarky Rudavsky 520 725 -8 23:4 חמישי I 5th with Zarky Rudavsky 520 725 -14 23:9 ששי S 6th T Barbara Kaiserman, 412-422-5677 Zarky Rudavsky 521 726 -22 23:15 שביעי E 7th N/A 522 727 -22 23:19 מפטיר R Maftir 44:15-31 Zarky Rudavsky 528 735 הפטרה H Please Contribute to the Sisterhood Flower Fund Haftarah O Remember those flowers on High Holidays and festivals?! Please contribute to the beautiful flowers on special days in our praying spaces. O MINHAH - MAY 1, 2021 - 19 IYYAR 5781 D See flyers outside our offices and outside the Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom. Make your check payable to “Beth Shalom Sisterhood Flower Fund” and return it PARASHAT BEHAR to the Flower Fund Chair, Congregation Beth Shalom Sisterhood. Thank you! Aliyah Verses Reader Hertz Etz Hayim Leviticus 25:1-3 Rich Feder 531 738 ראשון 1st

Rich Feder 531 738 -7 25:4 שני 2nd Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh presents a night of virtual learning 3rd 25:8 -13 Helen Feder 532 739 שלישי p.m. - 12:50 a.m., in three 50-minute sessions 10:00 Preregistration at https://JewishPgh.org/tikkun Register now! Each hour presents a variety of study options. You provide your cheesecake and coffee.

C COVID-19 Vaccine Divrei Hashavua — Words of the Week O Do you need help getting the COVID-19 vaccine? M If you or other community members you know need help connecting to make an M appointment, please contact Tika Bonner, our receptionist, at 412-421-2288. We have several individuals ready to help you and others connect to this lifesaving U resource. If you know of persons who do not receive email or who are not connected to N the Internet, we would be happy to reach out by phone. I T Conversation with JTS’s Chancellor Y Conversation with Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz, May 10, at 7:30 p.m. How do we build Jewish community and inspire Jewish life? How do we nurture Jewish identity that is deep and lasting? How do we use Jewish text and tradition to offer meaning to modern Jews? Join JTS’s new Chancellor Shuly Rubin Schwartz in dialog with Jeff Finkelstein, JTS alum and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, about what comes next for the Jewish community. For more information and to register, visit http://Inspired.jtsa.edu/CSSZ_Pittsburgh

UPCOMING EVENTS Life & Text with Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman, Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m. For additional information, please see the flyers in the racks, or go to our website. A 75-minute class and discussion of Hassidic insights on the . Check the calendar on our website for daily event information Question and brief discussion focusing on personal growth and life experiences before moving to the at http://www.bethshalompgh.org words of great of 18th and 19th century Eastern Europe. https://bethshalompgh.org/life-text/

Sunday, May 2, 7:30 p.m., by Zoom 8:30 p.m. Sundays - Dig into the language of the parashah, unpack a difficult section of Torah! An examination of the personalities, lives, and careers of Jewish-American musicians including https://bethshalompgh.org/online-parashah/ Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Stan Getz, Terry Gibbs, whose pioneering contributions shaped this uniquely American genre of jazz music. Classic recordings, video clips, and “live” performances from Seth Kibel, our instructor, will make this course swing like the music itself! 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 the “meal” Sunday, May 30th, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. for $100 per week, to provide for ritual necessities such as Torah repair. [Rain date is May 31] Contact Ira Frank, 412-849-2937 or [email protected] Hold your own yard sale. Donate the cash you raise to Beth Shalom. Yard Sales are lucrative but overwhelming. We will help you and simplify the process. We will advertise city wide, design and give you posters, generate foot traffic, spotlight your special You can fully sponsor the virtual “meal” (no actual food) for $400 or co-sponsor with another items, arrange pickup of unsold items, and your donations may be tax-deductible. member for $200 each, to provide for general synagogue needs (general funds, youth, preschool). Contact Ira Frank, 412-849-2937 or [email protected] Funds will benefit the Youth Department’s end-of-summer event so we can welcome back our teens in style and in person! Click here to sign up or for more information https://bethshalompgh.org/YardSale/ Youth Tefillah Karaoke - Rabbi Josh Warshawsky Launches Shabbat, May 1, 10:00 a.m. Karaoke teffilah style Shabbat program in partnership Class began Sunday, April 11th, and runs for ten Sundays with Rabbi Josh Warshawsky, of Mah Rabu fame! Learn how to pronounce and read basic Hebrew. In this 10 week class, we’ll a handle on the Join us this Saturday morning for about 40 minutes of a special service letters of the Hebrew alphabet, how to say them and read them, and become more fluent with the led by Rabbi Warshawsky. reading of some of our sacred texts like Torah and the . Information at BethShalomPgh.org/Youth-Tefillah-Karaoke/. Registration at https://bethshalompgh.org/derekh-hebrew-for-beginners/

Y Tzitzit Tying Monday mornings at 9:15 a.m. Rabbi Jeremy Markiz learns Massekhet Rosh Hashanah, a O Sunday, May 2, at 11:00 a.m., in the Beth Shalom Parking Lot tractate of the Talmud about the many new years that fill out the Jewish calendar. To join Learn to tie tzitzit! Have thread, will travel! Talmud Class Google Group, go to http://bethshalompgh.org/mondaytalmud/ U http://bethshalompgh.org/Tzitzit-Tying/ T H Kadima & BSUSY Virtual Lounge Nights 8:30 a.m. on the third Tuesday of each month. J oin us for a monthly meetup for learners across our community. We will discuss lessons from the current tractate, ask questions, and Open to all 6th - 12th graders! Every Monday night, 6:00 p.m. celebrate our study. https://bethshalompgh.org/derekh-daf-yomi-meet-up/ We have fun activities planned! http://bethshalompgh.org/mondays-virtual-lounge-night/

Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Adelson, first Tuesday of each month, 12:00 p.m.! Minecraft! Next session Tuesday, May 4 on Zoom. The topic for this year is “Stories from Nevi’im.” Though we read a passage from the Prophets every Shabbat/Yom Tov, we often overlook the actual Are you between the ages of 8-12? Do you love Minecraft? text. Further information at https://BethShalomPgh.org/LunchandLearn/ We want to hear from you! And Rabbi Adelson is open to suggestions of topics for these sessions for coming years. Contact Marissa Tait at [email protected]