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THE WEEK AT A GLANCE 8:00 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Sunday, 6/23 ~ 20 Sivan 2:00 pm Intro to Judaism, Zweig Library ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:15 am Talmud Study, Lehman Center Monday, 6/24 ~ 21 Sivan 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:15 pm Latin Cardio, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Shabbat Shalom! 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Tuesday, 6/25 ~ 22 Sivan 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 19 Sivan, 5779 7:30 pm Executive Committee Meeting, Lehman Center This week’s parashah is Beha’alotekha. 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Wednesday, 6/26 ~ 23 Sivan 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Thursday, 6/27 ~ 24 Sivan 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel Friday, 6/28 ~ 25 Sivan 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Candle lighting 8:36 pm 6:00 pm Hod veHadar Kabbalat Shabbat, Weinberg Pavilion Saturday, 6/29 ~ 26 Sivan 6:30 am Early Morning Shabbat Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Friday, June 21, 2019 Youth Services Aufruf for Arielle Kroser & Da- 9:30 am Shabbat Morning Service, including Aufruf for David Stein & Arielle Kroser, Candle lighting 8:35 p.m. vid Stein and Baby Naming for Mitchell & Rhoda Letwin, Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Saturday Baby Naming for Mitchell & 10:00 am Youth Tefillah, Meet in Shear Youth Lounge, then to respective services Rhonda Letwin’s grandson 12:15 pm Congregational Kiddush, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 10:00-10:30 am - Gym is closed. Havdalah 9:35 pm 8:35 pm Minhah, Discussion, Ma’ariv, Homestead Hebrew Chapel Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm Helfant Chapel Please meet in the Shear Youth Lounge. Infant - Kindergarten with Manny Theiner 10:30 am - 12:00 pm rd Saturday, June 22, 2019 Hoffman & Zweig Libraries, 3 floor Yahrzeits FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 22–28, 2019 19–25 SIVAN, 5779 1st - 4th Grade The following Yahrzeits will be observed today and in the coming week. This list comprises those dear departed for whom there Havdalah at 9:35 p.m. are dedicated plaques in our praying spaces, and those for whom contributions have been made to have their names listed here. Youth Tefillah 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Louis Adler Carl J. Greenberg Louis Meyers Hyman Shapiro nd Ruth A. Altshuler Morris Grinberg Yetta Middleman Frieda Siegel Early Morning Shabbat Service 6:30 am Eisner Commons, 2 floor Samuel A. Barbalat Rhoda Grinberg Anna Nussbaum Hannah Siegle Homestead Hebrew Chapel th th Eva Bendas Albert Gross Sarah Pearlman Anna Sigal 5 - 6 Grade Della Berman Julius Halpern Anne Pechersky Sarah Silverberg Youth Tefillah Hermine Blaufeld Ida Hausman Gertrude Pechersky Ethel SInger 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Shabbat Morning Service, including nd Abraham S. Burack Anna Herskovitz Rose Rapoport Fannie Stark 9:30 am Homestead Hebrew Chapel, 2 floor Philip R. Caplan Benjamin Horne William Rapport Mark James Steinberg Baby Naming for Rachel & Ben Antin Usher Cohen Henrietta S. Hydovitz Harry Recht Morris Steinman Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary Jean L. Davis Milton Jackson Sidney L. Reinwasser Gizella Stern Roman Dolinsky Bennett Kaufman Lynne Ellen Robins Morton N. Stewart Ida Dunn Marilyn Kirshenbaum Roz Rosenblatt Yekusiel Surloff Shabbat Morning Discussion Service 10:30 am Abe Feldman Bernard Klein Mordecai Rothman Meyer B. Swartz Weinberg Pavilion Rebecca Fishman Jack K. Kruman Maya Rybchinsky Herbert Swimmer Please refrain from using Jack Fleishman Max Leff Samuel S. Sandomire Samuel H. Tanur electronic devices in the Pauline H. Freedman Sarah Miller Leff Sidney Santman Sam Tepper Minnie G. Freeman Elyk Lembersky Michael C. Schaffer Evelyn Goldston Tisherman Congregational K iddush in honor of Savannah synagogue during Shabbat Ida Friedken Cecile G. Levine Susana Schwarcz Albert Unger Lilly Antin’s baby naming sponsored by and holidays. Chaya Globus Sarah Levinson Herman Schwartz Bertha Weinberg grandparents Dr. & Mrs. Mitchell Antin and Thank you. Fred Gluck Sarah Lewis Louis Schwartz Leonard Young Dr. & Mrs. Richard Wein 12:15 pm Sarah Goldman Morris N. Lincoff Anne Segal Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom Samuel H. Gordon Eleanor W. Markiewicz Idalee Segal Jennie Gorman Ben Mazur Hans Seidler Please look for this symbol inside Minhah, Discussion, Ma’ariv 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 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 Shabbat Services. We look forward to seeing you again soon. Who Was ?

All are welcome to the congregational Kiddush in honor of Savannah Lilly Antin’s baby Born Samuel Wilder on June 22, 1906, in Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary, which is now Sucha Beskidzka, Malopol- naming sponsored by grandparents Dr. & Mrs. Mitchell Antin and Dr. & Mrs. skie, Poland, Billy Wilder would go on to become a world-renowned filmmaker, director, screenwriter, producer, artist, Richard Wein, immediately following services in the Samuel and Minnie Hyman and journalist. His parents ran a cafe in Sucha’s train station. His mother, grandmother, and stepfather would die in the Ballroom. Holocaust. His brother W. Lee Wilder (1904-1982) also worked in film. Mr. Wilder had intended to become a lawyer, attending the University of Vienna in prelaw, but dropped out to become a sports reporter for a Viennese newspaper, which led him to Berlin and the crime beat at another paper in 1926. Also during that year he served as interpreter for band leader Paul Whiteman on tour, his introduction to the performing arts. OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY He became a screenwriter in the late 1920s on Menschen am Sonntag (1930), and continued writing screenplays before leaving for Paris in 1933 to evade the rise of the Nazi Party. In Paris he made his directing debut co-directing (1934) with Alexander Esway, and soon enough left for the United States, speaking no English. He moved to Mazal Tov to Hollywood, shared an apartment with Peter Lorre, learned the language and was able to break into films here. Hanna and David (of blessed memory) Edelstein’s granddaughter, Errin Edelstein’s Partnering with writer in 1938, they wrote film classics such as Ninotchka (1939) and Ball of Fire (1941). Growing into a producer-director team, in 1942, they created, among others, (1943), The engagement to Doron Tamari of Chicago, son of Solly and Michal Tamari of Tel Aviv. Lost Weekend (1945), and Sunset Boulevard (1950). Mr. Wilder already had done in 1944 without Mr. Brackett, who objected to the disreputable nature of the characters, and the pair soon went their separate ways. Condolences to Mr. Wilder would go forth to produce Ace in the Hole (1951), (1959), and (1960). He was the first to win for producer, director, and screenwriter all for the same film, for The Apartment. The family of Evelyn Goldblum, wife of our late Rabbi Moshe Goldblum (z”l) on her Billy Wilder went on to create so many iconoclastic films - unusual both in subject matter and in groundbreaking passing on Tuesday morning, June 18th, at the age of 95. creativity, including The Seven-Year Itch, Witness for the Prosecution, and Love in the Afternoon. In the 1960s he made One, Two, Three, , , and Kiss Me, Stupid. Having been nominated for 20 Milt & Sarita Eisner on the passing of brother -in-law Eugene Klein. Academy Awards, he won six and also in 1988 was given the Irving G. Thalberg Award for consistently high quality of motion-picture production. According to IMDb, he worked on and initially had wanted to direct Schindler’s List. Mr. Wilder’s mentor was Ernst Lubitsch, and he kept a sign in his office, “How would Lubitsch do it?” Mr. Wilder’s last film was (1981) with Walter Matthau and . He died on the same day as Do You Know Your Hebrew Name? Please Write It Down! Dudley Moore and Milton Berle, March 27, 2002. Do you know your Hebrew Name? Can you spell it in Hebrew? Do you know the names of your relatives, of Billy Wilder’s mother called him “Billy” from a tender age, as she idolized Buffalo Bill Cody, and American culture. those before you and those younger than you? After whom were you named? Do you spell your name the same way? Do you need help with this? We are here. Please collect your family’s full Hebrew names We look forward to your questions. We have these columns online at http://bethshalompgh.org/ive-always-wondered/ . and keep them somewhere safe. We can keep them for you, as well.

Clergy OUR LEADERSHIPExecutive Committee Rabbi Seth Adelson, Ext. 115 Deborah Firestone, President, Ext. 106 The Religious Services Committee is looking for a few (more) good people to lead Pesukei Rabbi Mark Staitman, Rabbinic Scholar Kate Rothstein, Executive Vice President Dezimra and Shaharit on Shabbat mornings. If you would like to join our team of leaders or Staff Alan Kopolow, Vice President would like to learn how to lead, please contact Sheldon Catz at [email protected]. Ḥazzan Rob Menes, Executive Director, Ext. 226 Jordan Fischbach, Vice President Dale Caprara, Controller, Ext. 109 Fred Newman, Treasurer Volunteer to Help with Kiddush! Really, we need YOU! Anthony Colaizzi, Communications & Design Manager, Ext. 108 Dan Eisner, Secretary Audrey Glickman, Rabbi’s Assistant, Ext. 112 David Horvitz, Past President Please volunteer to help make the Kiddush - setup, cleanup, everything in between. Kate Kim, Assistant JJEP Director, Ext. 323 Julian Elbling We all like Kiddush, please help make it happen! Rabbi Jeremy Markiz, Director of Derekh and Youth Tefillah, Ext. 111 Judy Kornblith Kobell Please contact Michelle Vines, at 412-421-2288 x113, or [email protected]. Hilary Huelsman, Early Learning Center Director, Ext. 390 Marissa Tait, Director of Y outh Programming, Ext. 463 Auxiliary Presidents Michelle Vines, Events Coordinator, Ext. 113 Ira Frank, Men’s Club Kiddush Sponsorship Judy Kornblith Kobell, Sisterhood Lonnie Wolf, Cemetery Director, Ext. 293 Elana Kolko, USY Celebrating a simhah or honoring the memory of a loved one? To sponsor a catered Kiddush, Mimi Maizlech, Receptionist, Ext. 114 contact Michelle Vines, at 412-421-2288 x113, or [email protected] Honorary President Ruth Ganz Fargotstein (z”l) Please Contribute to the Sisterhood Flower Fund LOCATING THE MOST ACCESSIBLE ENTRANCE Palkovitz Lobby, Helfant Chapel, ELC, Front Offices: Enter at Beacon Street (or Rear Parking Lot Entrance with key) Did you see those flowers on Shavu’ot?! Eisner Commons, Homestead Hebrew Chapel: Enter at Beacon Street, take elevator to 2nd floor Please contribute to the beautiful flowers on special days in our praying spaces. Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary: Enter at Beacon Street, take elevator to 3rd floor Shear Youth Lounge, Rice Auditorium: Enter at Beacon Street, take elevator to 3rd floor See flyers outside our offices and outside the Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom. Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom: Enter at Shady Avenue

Beth Shalom Community Coloring Book SHABBAT - 19 SIVAN 5779 PARASHAT BEHA’ALOTEKHA Judaism Through Our Eyes, a Beth Shalom Etz Community Project! Aliyah Verses Readers Hertz Hayim Numbers 10:35-11:9 Shoshanna Barnett 613 826 ראשון 1st Zarky Rudavsky 615 828 11:10-18 שני 2nd Zarky Rudavsky 616 830 11:19-22 שלישי Create art! 3rd Marlene Behrmann Cohen 616 830 11:23-29 רביעי 4th

Marlene Behrmann Cohen 617 832 11:30-35 חמישי 5th Ari Chester 618 833 12:1-13 ששי 6th Ari Chester 619 835 12:14-16 שביעי A 7th Ari Chester 619 835 12:14-16 מפטיר D You may be a grownup, you may be almost a grownup, you may be an Maftir aspiring grownup or a happy kid, but you love a good coloring book — Zechariah 2:14-4:7 Adrienne Indianer 620 837 הפטרה U Haftarah even if you’ve always just scribbled outside the lines! L Well, now we want you to make the lines, create art for our coloring book. T Express yourself! On an 8½” x 11” page, place a line drawing, or a photo S which will be turned into a line drawing. Then send us a JPG or a PDF of that page, or deliver the page in person. The theme is “Judaism Through & Our Eyes.” (Please see the website for further instructions.)

Y A summary of this week’s parashah, from Hazzan Rob Menes, O www.HazzanMenes.info Not into creating art? The Israelites have been out of Egypt for two years and are well into their daily experience of wandering in U the Wilderness. This week’s parashah gives an interesting blend of the ritual and personal concerns of the Be a sponsor! people. First, we read that Aaron is instructed to light the Menorah, and its construction is reviewed. The T portion then continues with a description of the dedication of the Levites as assistants to the priests. The celebration of the second Pesah (Passover) is recounted, but with an interesting twist: some people can’t bring H the required sacrificial offering, due to ritual impurity, so God gives them a second chance a month later, with the introduction of Pesah Sheni. Then, the movements of the Pillar of Cloud by day and the Pillar of Fire by night are explained, indicating This is the Youth Department’s new fundraising effort: God’s presence among the people and the nature of divine leadership in the wilderness. As the central story of creating a sponsored coloring book to give a meaningful this portion, the Israelites take to complaining about the lack of variety in their diet. They are provided with voice to the members of the Beth Shalom community Manna from heaven, but this is not enough - they want meat! Even though God is angered by the people’s impudence, God agrees to satisfy the people’s craving for meat and sends flocks of quail. To make a graphic for all to share while supporting Youth Department point, God sends so much meat that it comes out the people’s nostrils! programming. Sponsors receive coloring books Next, Moses expresses frustration as the leader of a difficult people. To help, Moses is instructed by God to (which may alternatively be donated to JF&CS). appoint 70 Elders to help him govern and judge the nation. The Elders are divinely confirmed and given the gift of prophecy. This coloring book will be for all ages and varying levels of difficulty. In a final episode of dissention, Moses’s own brother Aaron and sister Miriam speak slander against Moses. As a result, Miriam is stricken with tzara’at, a scaly skin affliction, and is sent out of the camp. Moses pleads To get involved, go to https://tinyurl.com/CBSColoringBook2019 with God to heal her. or call Marissa Tait, Director of Youth Programming at 412-421-2288 x465. UPCOMING EVENTS For additional information, please see the flyers in the racks, or go to our website. Wholly Holy: Exploring Faith, Practice, and Belonging in Judaism and Christianity Check the calendar on our website for daily event information Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. in the Eisner Commons at http://www.bethshalompgh.org With Rabbi Jeremy Markiz and Rev. Canon Natalie L.G. Hall, Episcopal Diocese of Pgh. We hope to create an intergenerational interfaith conversation. All persons, all ages, all experiences are welcome. This series is free. Lunch is included. Free on-site childcare available. Additional Discussion Service! THIS SHABBAT!!! Please RSVP online at https://tinyurl.com/WhollyHoly2019 Shabbat Morning, June 22nd. Formerly the Learners’ Service, we meet at 10:30 a.m., July 3 - Birth & Initiation Rite July 31 - Religious Faith Leadership in Weinberg Pavilion. Rabbi Adelson leads a discussion-oriented service for July 10 - Coming of Age August 7 - Sickness all ranges of davener, from the uninitiated to the veterans. We seek meaning July 17 - Daily Practice August 14 - Death behind the words, and personal connections within tefillah. Free; all are welcome. This year’s theme is “Goals of Tefillah.” June’s topic will be tzedakah. Every Monday morning at 9:15 a.m. in Lehman Center Rabbi Jeremy Markiz learns Massekhet Rosh Hashanah, a tractate of the Talmud about the many new years that fill out Saturday, July 6, and Sunday, July 7 the Jewish calendar. If you'd like to join the Talmud Class Google Group, follow this link: Join Noam Sienna for a Scholar in Residence weekend. https://groups.google.com/d/forum/talmudcbs Noam Sienna is a Jewish educator, artist, and doctoral candidate in Jewish History and Museum Studies at the University of Minnesota. Sisterhood Book Club Noam is the author of A Rainbow Thread: S An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts From the First Century to 1969, I The Sisterhood Book Club will discuss a collection of over 100 sources on the intersection of Jewish and queer identities. S Bridge of Clay by Markus Zuzak  Saturday at 12:45, Noam will lead a study session to explore how genders T The meeting date has yet to be determined; outside the binary have been categorized, understood, and experienced by E it is likely it will be in September. Jews around the world from antiquity to the 20th century. R  Saturday evening between Minhah and Ma’ariv Noam will give a shi’ur H examining LGBTQ identities in the Talmud; dessert will be served. Sisterhood Judaica Shop - Great Gifts!  Sunday from 10:00-11:00 a.m. Noam will discuss his book, which will be O Open Friday 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (except holidays), available for purchase and signing. A light breakfast will be served. O or by appointment All events are free and open to the public. D Barbara Kaiserman, 412-422-5677 RSVP or questions please email [email protected]. Summer - 30% off all wedding gifts and jewelry

Memorial Day through Labor Day, Thursdays, 6:30-8:00 p.m. M C Sweepstakes Tickets Are On Sale Everyday Spirituality for healing, growth, creativity, and innovation. E L Men’s Club 2019 Sweepstakes tickets are available now, at $75 each. Join us weekly for casual conversation and exploration. Come once or come N U Drawing every Friday, based on PA Lottery number. weekly. Friends are welcome. Please check our websites for location and ’ B Tickets must be paid to win! Chance to win twice each week through November. Deborah A. Baron, Coach confirmation of upcoming dates. Rabbi Jeremy Markiz S The final event will be in December 2019. Executive, Leadership, Life, Transformative Director of Derekh and Youth Tefillah Contact Ira Frank for tickets, 412-849-2937 or [email protected]. www.deborahbaron.com www.bethshalompgh..org

C NCJW’s Back-2-School Store (B2SS) Classes: 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4, and 8/11, at 2:00-4:00 p.m. O - Sunday, July 28, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., at Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Avenue. We invite you to this non-denominational class. The six-week course will M I We need volunteers! Sign up at https://www.ncjwpgh.org/projects/back-2-school-store/ cover an overview of love & sex, lifecycles from birth to death, the Holocaust, M T B2SS helps underprivileged children start the year on an equal footing. Elementary Israel, and the Jewish mission to heal the world. U Y students from pre-qualified families have the opportunity to shop for brand new clothing, Beth Shalom members $80 (includes book); non-members $100 (includes book). N shoes, outerwear, and school supplies at no cost. While children shop, parents visit the BethShalomPgh.org/derekh-introduction-to-judaism-part-3/ Resource Room to connect with local agencies.