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 Billy Wilder? 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 Mauvaise Graine (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 Charles Brackett 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, Five Graves to Cairo (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 Double Indemnity 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), Some Like It Hot (1959), and The Apartment (1960). He was the first to win Academy Awards 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, Irma La Douce, The Fortune Cookie, 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 Buddy Buddy (1981) with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. 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.