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 Algonquin Round Table? 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 Alexander Woollcott, 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 Dorothy Parker, 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 Harpo Marx, composers George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, critic Heywood Broun, 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. 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