Shabbat Morning Service, including baby naming for Gillian & Aaron Bloomfield 9:30 am

Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary

Early Morning Shabbat Service 6:30 am Homestead Hebrew Chapel

Saturday, January 4, 2020

Havdalah 5:48 p.m.

Sunday, 1/5 ~ 8 Tevet

8:00 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 12:15 pm Benei Mitzvah Workshop #1 of 3, Zweig Library 1:00 pm Cards & Kits - Youth Dep’t with Repair the World, Eisner Commons 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 8:30 pm Online Parashah Study Group - Textual, Zoom Video Call

Monday, 1/6 ~ 9 Tevet

7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:15 am Talmud Study, Lehman Center 6:00 pm BSUSY Lounge, Shear Youth Lounge 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:15 pm Latin Cardio, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom

Tuesday, 1/7 ~ 10 Tevet Asara BeTevet - Fast from

Dawn to Dusk.

7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 4:15 pm J-JEP, Classrooms 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 pm Planning for Adult Purim Party, Lehman Center 8:30 pm Online Parashah Study Group - Torah and Modern Life, Zoom

Wednesday, 1/8 ~ 11 Tevet 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 11:00 am Life and Text: Weekly Parashah Study, Lehman Center 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel

Thursday, 1/9 ~ 12 Tevet 7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 4:15 pm J-JEP, Classrooms 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel

Friday, 1/10 ~ 13 Tevet Candle lighting 4:54 pm

7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 6:00 pm Kabbalat Shabbat, Helfant Chapel

Saturday, 1/11 ~ 14 Tevet Havdalah 5:55 pm

6:30 am Early Morning Shabbat Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 9:30 am Shabbat Morning Service, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 10:00 am Youth Tefillah, Meet in Shear Youth Lounge, then to respective services 12:15 pm Congregational Kiddush, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 4:25 pm Minhah, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 4:50 pm Se’udah Shelishit, in the Eisner Commons 5:35 pm Ma’ariv, Homestead Hebrew Chapel

ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITY, LIFELONG JEWISH LEARNING, & SPIRITUAL GROWTH

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THE WEEK AT A GLANCE

FOR THE WEEK OF JAN. 4 - 10, 2020 7 - 13 TEVET, 5780 Yahrzeits

Susan Armour Rae Barent Sophie Bastacky Edith Fleegler Belle Israel Blumenfeld Benjamin H. Bonn Joseph J. Broida Herbert B. Burechson Milton Burechson Aaron Canter Ann Z. Childs William H Cohen Sally S Daniels Mary Darling Bertha Diulus Edward John Eggleston Ruth Fargotstein Hyman Feld Shirley Feldman Isadore Fibus Louis Fischer

Itskhok Fisher Jeanne Hydovitz Glick Abe Goddy Samuel Goldblatt David K. Goldblum Helen S. Goldman Beulah Goldstein Jerome Goldstein Rose Goodman Fannie Goodstein David Jay Gould Esther Ann Green Simon Greengard Selma Greenhouse Irving Halpern David Hausrath Myra Kohn Hausroth Samuel S. Horvitz Saul A. Jacobson Sam Kalson Rose Katz

Harry Kaufman Emanuel Klee Yetta Krovitsky Leonard L. Launer Richard Lebovitz Harry Lembersky Burton Lerner Rose Levine Melvin F Levy Samuel Lewis Max Maharam Maurice A Markley Norman Mazerov Andrew Meyers Israel Meyerson Sol Mintz Johanna B. Noven David Oppenheim Max Osofsky Bert Prince Jacob M. Rapport

Jechezkel Ratchkauskas Harry Reuben Abe Robin Samuel Rofey Harry D. Rosen Chaya Rosenberg Mendel Rosenfeld George Rosenthal Samuel Roth Nathan Roth O. Louis Rubenstein Max Saul Leah C. Savage Belva Schiff Abraham Segal Louis Sesler Jerome Silverman Edith B. Slayton Sanford Slutsky Lillian Stone Leah Tapley

Henrietta Topolsky Julius Trachtenberg Sadie Ungar Bella Wein Samuel J. Weinberg Eugene Weinberger Jack Weiss Miksa Weisz Frommie Harris Whitman Esther Zalevsky

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Please refrain from using electronic devices in the

synagogue during Shabbat and holidays. Thank you.

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.

Youth Services

Saturday

10:00-10:30 am - Meet in the Shear Youth Lounge

or Rice Gym.

Toddler - Pre-K with Manny Theiner 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Hoffman & Zweig Libraries, 3rd floor

Mini-Minyan, Pre-K - 2nd Grade Youth Tefillah

11:15 am - 12:00 pm Homestead Hebrew Chapel

3rd - 5th Grade Youth Tefillah 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Youth Lounge, 4th floor

Friday, January 3, 2020

Candle lighting 4:47 p.m.

Minhah 4:15 pm Homestead Hebrew Chapel

Se’udah Shelishit 4:40 pm Eisner Commons

Ma’ariv 5:25 pm Homestead Hebrew Chapel

Congregational K iddush 12:15 pm

Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom

Shabbat Shalom! 7 Tevet, 5780

This week’s parashah is Vayiggash.

Shababababa and Shabbat Haverim 5:45 pm Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom

Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm Helfant Chapel

The Rabbi’s Assistant answers questions that someone might be too shy to ask.

What Is the Space Torah?

Housed at Congregation Or Ami in Houston, Texas, the Space Torah is a Sefer Torah that was actually taken into space by Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman, astronaut, in February 1996 on the space shuttle Columbia.

The small kosher scroll was stored in the hold of the ship. When passing over Israel, Dr. Hoffman read from Bereshit. (He said he hadn’t known in advance which week they would be traveling, so he learned Bereshit as a nod to the beginning of reading Torah in space.)

Rabbi Shaul Osadchey of Or Ami had spoken often with Dr. Hoffman of the notion of a space scroll, and the rabbi searched to find one small and light enough. At one point he was in New York, and heard about a scroll that a rabbi had obtained in Jerusalem 25 years prior. Rabbi Osadchey went to negotiate with the reluctant owner. Ultimately, sending it into space was enough of a reason for the New York rabbi to part with it.

Now technically the first reading from the Torah was in English on Christmas in 1968 by the astronauts of Apollo 8, also reading from Genesis. Dr. Hoffman’s, though, was the first Hebrew reading.

The Space Torah is in use. Benei mitzvah students especially enjoy leyning from it. It wears spindle covers (as crowns) shaped like the space shuttle. And there is a project afoot to produce a film about it.

But it was not the only Sefer Torah to fly into space. In February 2003 the space shuttle Columbia horribly and fatally malfunctioned during reentry. On that trip the shuttle held a Sefer Torah as well - one which had been saved from Bergen-Belsen, owned by Israeli physics professor Joachim Joseph, who had used it to study for his bar mitzvah in the camp. (First) Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon (z”l) had carried the scroll and also an Auschwitz teenager’s artful rendition of the earth and moon with him. All aboard the shuttle were lost.

In September 2006, astronaut Steve MacLean of Canada, in remembrance of his friend Ilan Ramon, took a second Sefer Torah rescued from Bergen-Belsen on board the Atlantis on a trip to the International Space Station. That scroll was returned safely to its owner, Henry Fenichel, also a physics professor.

Dr. Hoffman was also the astronaut who took a dreidel with him on his mission to rescue and repair the Hubble Space Telescope. The dreidel of course was not stopped by gravity, it just kept spinning.

We look forward to your questions. We have these columns online at http://bethshalompgh.org/ive-always-wondered/ .

Rabbi Adelson joins the Officers and Trustees in welcoming all members and guests to our services. We look forward to seeing you again soon.

All are welcome to the congregational kiddush, sponsored by Aaron & Gillian Bloomfield in honor of the naming of their daughter Flora Jane, immediately following services in the Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom.

This week’s Se’udah Shelishit will be sponsored by Debby Gillman & Danny Kass in honor of the yahrzeits of Miryom Kass and Rabbi Neil Gillman.

OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY

SHABBAT SHALOM

Kiddush Sponsorship

Celebrating a simhah or honoring the memory of a loved one? To sponsor a catered Kiddush, contact Michelle Vines, at 412-421-2288 x113, or catering1@bethshalompgh.org

Se’udah Shelishit / Third Shabbat Meal

Every Shabbat afternoon from Oct. 19 until Pesah, we dine together at se’udah shelishit (the third Shabbat meal). Free to attend; all are welcome. We meet in the Eisner Commons, starting one and a half hours before

havdalah time (check this Bulletin or the website for the schedule). We are seeking sponsors, please!

To sponsor the a third meal, please contact Ira Frank: 412-281-4064 or natfabira@juno.com LOCATING THE MOST ACCESSIBLE ENTRANCE

Palkovitz Lobby, Helfant Chapel, ELC, Front Offices: Enter at Beacon Street (or Rear Parking Lot Entrance with key) 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 Shear Youth Lounge, Rice Auditorium: Enter at Beacon Street, take elevator to 4th floor Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom: Enter at Shady Avenue

Volunteer to Help with Kiddush! Really, we need YOU!

Please volunteer to help make the Kiddush - shopping, food prep, setup, cleanup, everything in between. Please contact Michelle Vines, at 412-421-2288 x113, or catering1@bethshalompgh.org.

OUR LEADERSHIP Clergy Rabbi Seth Adelson, Ext. 115 Rabbi Mark Staitman, Rabbinic Scholar Rabbi Jeremy Markiz, Dir. of Derekh & Youth Tefillah, Ext. 111

Executive Officers Deborah Firestone, President, Ext. 106 Kate Rothstein, Executive V ice President Alan Kopolow, Vice President Jordan Fischbach, Vice President Fred Newman, Treasurer Dan Eisner, Secretary David Horvitz, Past President

Staff Ken Turkewitz, Interim Exec. Director, Ext. 226 Dale Caprara, Controller, Ext. 109 Anthony Colaizzi, Communications & Design

Manager, Ext. 108 Audrey Glickman, Rabbi’s Assistant, Ext. 112 Rabbi Larry Freedman, J-JEP Director, Ext. 323 Kate Kim, Assistant J-JEP Director, Ext. 323 Hilary Yeckel, Early Learning Center Dir., Ext. 390 Rosie Valdez, ELC Administrator Marissa Tait, Dir. of Youth Programming, Ext. 463 Ethan Einhorn, Kadima Y outh Advisor Adi Kadosh, BSUSY Y outh Advisor Michelle Vines, Events Coordinator, Ext. 113 Lonnie Wolf, Cemetery Director, Ext. 293 Tika Bonner, Receptionist, Ext. 114 Carole Salisbury, Bookkeeper, Ext. 110

Auxiliary Presidents Ira Frank, Men’s Club Judy Kornblith Kobell, Sisterhood Elana Kolko, USY

Mazal Tov to

May Pawanya & Ari Chester, on the bir th of daughter Evelyn (Eva) Taliya on December 25th. Mazal tov also to big sisters Sara and Rachel. Evelyn is the great-niece of members Arnold & Joyce Caplan.

The family of Franki & Aaron Zimmerman on the birth of a daughter, Ella Jean Zimmer-man, in Stamford, CT. Ella is the granddaughter of member Dr. Stuart L. Silverman, great-granddaughter of members Ralph & Audrey Silverman, and great-niece of members Robert & Ellen Garvin.

Family and friends on the passing of member Zinoviy Khurgin on December 24.

Rotem & Sharon Guttman and son Tal Guttman on the passing of Rotem’s mother Brenda Guttman on December 27.

Alan Finkelstein & Lisa Schlar on the passing of Alan’s mother Myrna Finkelstein on December 30.

Bob & Ellen Garvin on the passing on J anuary 3 of Bob’s mother Ruth Garvin.

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3rd 44:25-30 שלישי Adam Kolko 169 274

4th 44:31-34 רביעי Martin Paul 170 275

5th 45:1-7 חמישי Dave Held 170 275

6th 45:8-18 ששי Dave Held 171 278

7th 45:19-27 שביעי Marlene Behrmann Cohen 172 278

Maftir 45:25-27 מפטיר Marlene Behrmann Cohen 172 279

Haftarah הפטרה Ezekiel 37:15-28 Sheldon Catz 178 291

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Sisterhood Book Club

The Sisterhood Book Club will discuss Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Monday, January 6, at 7:30 p.m., at Linda’s home.

ENJOY Books

The Sisterhood is selling Enjoy Books, $30. Please contact Dorothy Greenfield at 412-521-5217 or Lonnie Wolf at 412-421-2288 x293 for more information.

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Sisterhood Shabbat

February 1, 2020

Sisterhood Shabbat celebrates the women in our congregation and presents an opportunity for all of us to learn together.

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 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 , please contact Helen Feder with your name, email address, and phone number, whether you

prefer Hebrew or English parts or non-speaking parts, or if you want to do something specific. Helen may be reached by email at hrfeder@gmail.com (please put “Sisterhood

Shabbat 2020” into the subject line) or by phone at 412-521-2797.

Financial donations are also welcome, please, through http://tinyurl.com/SisterhoodShabbat5780.

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Sisterhood Judaica Shop - Great Gifts!

Open Friday 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (except holidays), or by appointment

Barbara Kaiserman, 412-422-5677

January - 30% off all in-house tallitot and kippot

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Cards and Kits

Sunday, January 5, 1:00-3:00 p.m. Repair the World Family Service Corps and Congregation Beth Shalom

present Cards and Kits. Pack snack kits and write heartfelt messages for kids living at the border.

Please register at https://rpr.world/familiespgh.

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IMPORTANT: Stand up for the values and strength of the Conservative Movement in Israel by casting your ballot in January for MERCAZ, the “champions of progress &

pluralism.” Vote for delegates to the World Zionist Congress, and encourage others to do so as well. Text “VOTE” to 917-336-1162 or go to www:Mercaz2020.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS For additional information, please see the flyers in the racks, or go to our website.

Check the calendar on our website for daily event information at http://www.bethshalompgh.org

Feb. 4th at Beth Shalom, Feb. 11th Downtown at David Horvitz’ office, 535 Smithfield Street Discussing the roots of egalitarianism in Conservative Judaism, including the landmark

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. (Lunch cannot be ordered for downtown, but may be taken with you. Registration not required.)

Next Discussion Service will be Feb. 22 at 10:30 a.m., in the Weinberg Pavilion. 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.

Free; all are welcome. This year’s theme is “The Intertextuality of Tefillah.” The February service topic is “The Languages of Tefillah.”

Textual Analysis: Sundays at 8:30 p.m. Torah & Modern Life: Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. 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. Interested in either or both? Contact derekhCBS@gmail.com

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

Talmud Class Google Group, go to https://groups.google.com/d/forum/talmudcbs

January 12, 10:00 a.m. - Data Visualization: From Energy Storage to Driverless Cars After spending a decade designing energy storage systems in a chemistry lab,

Shoshanna Barnett decided to learn how to make things with a keyboard. She is currently a software engineer at Uber here in Pittsburgh.

Learn about this fellow congregant’s job and how she makes complex ideas simple through data visualization techniques. A light breakfast will be served with bagels and lox

sponsored by Beth Shalom Men’s Club. The event is free. Please contact our office at 412-421-2288 or email derekhcbs@gmail.com to RSVP.

Planning a Congregational Adult Purim

Men’s Club and Sisterhood are planning for Sunday evening, March 8, an Adult Purim Party.

To help plan the evening’s events, please plan to bring your ideas to a planning meeting on Tuesday, January 7, at 7:30 p.m.!

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Jews For Justice: Dinner and Discussion

Friday, January 17, 6:00 p.m. (with teen-led Shabbat service in Helfant Chapel) Our fourth annual award-winning Beth Shalom USY Jews For Justice!

Tikkun Olam: What Does It Really Mean? One teen leader will facilitate dialogue between courses at each table. Similar programming for children in K-5th grade and babysitting will be available upon reservation only. We are

proud and excited to share a meal and important conversations with you! https://tinyurl.com/JewsJustice5780

Congregational Dinner

Friday, February 28, 7:00 p.m. Congregational Dinner, following Hod veHadar Instrumental K abbalat Shabbat at 6:00.

Sponsored by Men’s Club and Sisterhood

$25 per adult; $10 per child (12 and under). RSVP by 2/21/2020, please.

Sign up online: https://tinyurl.com/DinnerFebruary5780

11:00 a.m. Wednesdays - Bring the parashah alive and make it personally relevant and meaningful with Rabbi Mark Goodman!

Special Study session with Rabbi Adam Mintz. He will present an int roduction to the Book of Exodus, in partnership with 929 English. Contact derekhcbs@gmail.com for info.

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!

Music is a shared language through which we can connect on cultural intersections between Jewish and Black traditions. Bring your instrument and voice!

Future dates 2/19, 3/18, 4/29, at 7:30 p.m.

We are honored to spend a weekend with Rabbi Jeffrey Schein and Dr. Deborah Schein discussing Jewish Spirituality in the 21st century.

Plan to attend Friday evening, Saturday morning, and Sunday at 1:00. Friday evening dinner after service requires reservation by 1/15 at bethshalompgh.org/scholars.

Please see bethshalompgh.org/scholars-schein/.

This next session we will read Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s new book How to Be an Antiracist, chapters 4-7.

For info, contact Rabbi Jeremy Markiz at jmarkiz@bethshalompgh.org.

Learn about the upcoming Derekh Civil Rights Journey April 26-28. among Judaism, technology, and the spirituality of our children.

For info, contact Rabbi Jeremy Markiz at jmarkiz@bethshalompgh.org.