Congregational K iddush, sponsored by Debbey Altman-Diamant and Neil Diamant in honor of their son Aviv becoming a bar mitzvah 12:15 pm

Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom

Shabbat Morning Service, including Aviv Diamant becoming a bar mitzvah 9:15 am

Faye Rubenstein Weiss Sanctuary

Early Morning Shabbat Service 6:30 am Homestead Hebrew Chapel

Saturday, November 2, 2019

Havdalah 6:57 p.m.

Shabbat Shalom! 4 Heshvan, 5780

This week’s parashah is Noah.

Sunday, 11/3 ~ 5 Heshvan Daylight Saving Time Ends!

8:00 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 10:00 am Volunteer Awards Brunch, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 8:30 pm Online Parashah Study Group - Textual, Zoom Video Call

Monday, 11/4 ~ 6 Heshvan

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, 11/5 ~ 7 Heshvan

7:30 am Morning Service, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 12:00 pm Lunch and Learn, Zweig Library 4:15 pm J-JEP, Beth Shalom Classrooms 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 8:30 pm Online Parashah Study Group, Zoom Video Call

Wednesday, 11/6 ~ 8 Heshvan

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 7:30 pm Cemetery Committee Meeting, Lehman Center 7:30 pm Sisterhood Book Club, off site

Thursday, 11/7 ~ 9 Heshvan

7:30 am Morning Service including Aufruf for Alon Bendas & Stephanie Gorstein, Home-stead Hebrew Chapel

4:15 pm J-JEP, Beth Shalom Classrooms 7:00 pm Evening Service, Helfant Chapel 7:30 pm Façade Task Force Meeting, Lehman Center

Friday, 11/8 ~ 10 Heshvan Candle lighting 4:50 pm

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

Saturday, 11/9 ~ 11 Heshvan Havdalah 5:49 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 10:30 am Discussion Service, Weinberg Pavilion 12:00 pm Pre-K - 1st Grade Oneg, Gym 12:15 pm Congregational Kiddush, Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom 4:20 pm Minhah, Homestead Hebrew Chapel 4:45 pm Se’udah Shelishit, in the Eisner Commons 5:30 pm Ma’ariv, Homestead Hebrew Chapel

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

Please look for this symbol inside for info on accessible entrances at Beth Shalom.

THE WEEK AT A GLANCE

FOR THE WEEK OF NOV. 2 - 8, 2019 4 - 10 HESHVAN, 5780 Yahrzeits

Ruth Albert Arnold Altshuler Leah Aronson Rachel Averbach Samuel Bales Irwin Berliner Benjamin Breckstein Dorothy Buchman Fanny C. Caplan Ann Cohen Sam J. Cohen Harry B. Davis Sally Dizenfeld Ethel Dubin Barbara Feinberg Nathan Finegold Sarah Finn Milton R. Friedman

Norman Garvin Charles T. Glick Max Goldman Bessie M. Gordon Milton E. Green Morris Green Morris Hecht Jeffrey Helfand Mordechai Ianovsky Nellie Jacoboson Harry Joseph Kalson Louis Kleber Geraldine Kohn Olya Lavina Stanley Leibowitz Robert Lerman Sarah M. Levin Louis Levy

Emily K. Lieber Stanley Liepack Bessie T. Lincoff Isabelle Lubin Maurice Lyttle Theodore Mallinger Nathan Richard Mann Bashie Maretsky Alice K. Matz Ben Mermelstein Israel Miller Abraham Millstone Evsey Mnuskin Sylvia Moskovitz Samuel Nathenson Frances G. Neuman Gertrude Palkovitz Jennie Prince

Frume Raffel Leslie Reggel Rabbi Paul Stephen Reis Selma J. Reiss Sofia Rivkina Samuel Rosecrans Shlome Rosenfeld Chaya S. Rosenstein Libbie Rubinoff Melvin H. Samuels Bernath D. Schwartz Anna Schwartz Anna Senner Gilbert E. Shepse Gersh Sigal Sarah Silverman Ben Simon Benjamin Simon

Dorothy Slone Esther F. Small Anna B. Solomon Ellen Gordon Spatt Max Star Ida Stewart Zara Tabor Edith Thall Benjamin Trust Ida H. Wagner Sarah Weiner Henry Weiss Shlome A. Zolnierski

5915 BEACON STREET ° PITTSBURGH, PA 15217 ° 412.421.2288 ° BETHSHALOMPGH.ORG

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.

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, 2nd floor

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

Youth Lounge, 4th floor

Friday, November 1, 2019

Candle lighting 5:58 p.m.

Kabbalat Shabbat 6:00 pm Helfant Chapel

Minhah 5:30 pm Homestead Hebrew Chapel

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

Se’udah Shelishit, sponsored by Diane Silberg in loving memory of her sister Gail Silberg 5:55 pm

Eisner Commons

Ma’ariv 6:40 pm Homestead Hebrew Chapel

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

What Is the New Colossus?

Maybe to understand what the New Colossus is we should have an inkling what the old one was. The Colossus of

Rhodes (in Greek, ὁ Κολοσσὸς Ῥόδιος) is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. A statue of the Greek sun god Helios, it stood looking out to the harbor on the island of Rhodes, put there by Chares of Lindos in 280 BCE. They believe it was about 108 feet high not counting its base. The earthquake of 226 BCE took it down.

Bearing a date of November 2, 1883, “The New Colossus” was a poem, a sonnet, by Emma Lazarus (an American Jew, 7/22/1849-11/19/1887). She submitted it to an auction to aid the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund, a fund established to facilitate the building of a base upon which to park the Statue of Liberty, created by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, then being given by France to the United States. The statue was to be approximately the same height as the Colossus of Rhodes.

The poem was inscribed in 1903 on a plaque which was placed on the statue’s pedestal. (In 1945 it was moved to the entrance hallway.)

Emma Lazarus was already a well-known poet when she wrote “The New Colossus.” I commend you to read her “Echoes,” “Life and Art,” “Age and Death,” and so many more. And she also was no stranger to the plight both of emigrants from dangerous countries and of immigrants to this country. In the 1880s there were waves of pogroms plaguing Jews in Eastern Europe, and Ms. Lazarus was active with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. She also spoke out and wrote against anti-Semitism, in favor of a Zionist solution to the rampant persecution of Jews, and against persecution of immigrants here in the U.S.

Her poem “The New Colossus,” the most famous lines of which are “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” became the verbal embodiment of the Statue of Liberty, one intent of which was a mark of solidarity between France and the U.S. in terms of the promulgation of liberty.

Liberty is one resource we never must run out of: we must always be certain that there is enough to go around and that we offer it to those who need it.

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

Have You Moved Recently? Will You Be Moving?

If you have changed your address or are planning to do so, please notify the Beth Shalom office of your new address.

High Holidays are coming, and we need to know where to find you to include you!

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 Debbey Altman-Diamant and Neil Diamant in honor of Aviv becoming a bar mitzvah, immediately following services in the Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom.

This week’s Se’udah Shelishit is sponsored by Diane Silberg in loving memory of her sister Gail Silberg.

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.

The Religious Services Committee is looking for a few (more) good people to lead services! If you would like to join our team of leaders or would like to learn how to lead, please

contact Sheldon Catz at sheldoncatz50@gmail.com.

Adriane & Morris Horvitz and family on the passing of Adr iane’s father Elliot

Weinstein on November 1st.

Condolences to

Have you or your guest lost something in the shul? Are you missing something important? Please call our Receptionist for general articles, at 412-421-2288 x114.

OUR LEADERSHIP Clergy Rabbi Seth Adelson, Ext. 115 Rabbi Mark Staitman, Rabbinic Scholar Rabbi Jeremy Markiz, Director of Derekh and Y outh 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 Executive 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 Huelsmann, Early Learning Center Director, Ext. 390 Marissa Tait, Director of Y outh Programming, Ext. 463 Ethan Einhorn, Kadima Y outh Advisor Adi Kadosh, BSUSY Youth Advisor Michelle Vines, Events Coordinator, Ext. 113 Lonnie Wolf, Cemetery Director, Ext. 293 Tika Bonner, Receptionist, Ext. 114

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

Honorary President Ruth Ganz Fargotstein (z”l)

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1st ראשון Genesis 6:9-16 Aviv Diamant 26 41

2nd 6:17-19 שני Aviv Diamant 27 43

3rd 6:20-22 שלישי Aviv Diamant 27 43

4th 7:1-9 רביעי Ira Rothstein 28 44

5th 7:10-16 חמישי Marlene Behrman Cohen 28 45

6th 7:17-24 ששי Ilana Diamant 29 46

7th 8:1-14 שביעי Debbey Altman-Diamant 29 46

Maftir 8:12-14 מפטיר Aviv Diamant 31 48

Haftarah הפטרה Isaiah 54:1-55:5 Aviv Diamant 41 65

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Sisterhood Book Club

The Sisterhood Book Club will discuss Bridge of Clay by Markus Zuzak

Wednesday, November 6, at 7:30 p.m., at Natalie’s house.

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Sweepstakes Tickets Are On Sale

Men’s Club 2019 Sweepstakes tickets are available now, at $75 each. Drawing every Friday, based on PA Lottery number.

Tickets must be paid to win! Chance to win twice each week through November. The final event will be held on December 7, 2019.

Contact Ira Frank for tickets, 412-849-2937 or natfabira@juno.com.

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.

Herein is a new feature called “Divrei Hashavua” or “Words of the Week.” The vision of Divrei Hashavua is to teach novice Hebrew readers the Hebrew words found in the Torah a few words at a time so they will be more comfortable in our synagogues. We will do this by providing five Hebrew words with their English translation and transliteration each week from the Torah portion in our Friday weekly email.

You can read more about this program in this CJ Voices Magazine article: http://www.cjvoices.org/article/words-of-the-week/.

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Monday mornings 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 the Jewish calendar. If you'd like to join the Talmud Class Google Group,

follow this link: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/talmudcbs

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 November - 30% off menorahs and dreidels

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Pre-K—1st Grade Oneg Shabbat

Nitzanim Family Connection Oneg, Saturday, November 9, at 12:00 p.m.,

in the Rice Gym, 4th floor. Kiddush Food, Playtime & Adult Chat

Pre K - 1st grade families join Rabbi Adelson and Marissa Tait for a special oneg. Parents will spend time together while children play in the gym. Questions or to RSVP

contact Marissa Tait at MTait@BethShalomPgh.org or 412-421-2288 x463.

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

One of the features of this event will be a playbill distributed that evening. This playbill will include a dedication to our honorary chairs Nancy and Leon Zionts, many congratulatory

messages from our congregants and community, and the opportunity for businesses in the city of Pittsburgh and the surrounding towns to advertise in it.

Please show your support by placing a special advertisement, either personally or an ad for your business in the playbill.

We look forward to receiving your ad by November 1, 2019.

Please call Steve Schwartz, playbill chairperson, at 412-765-3400 or email him at steve@ssapgh.com with any questions.

Sunday, November 3, 2019, 10:00 a.m.

in the Samuel and Minnie Hyman Ballroom

Honoring:

Bruce Rollman

Lester A. Hamburg Member of the Year Award

Ira Frank Nathan E. Snader Distinguished

Service Award

Shoshanna Barnett Ethel and Bernard M. Halpern Young

Leadership Award

Adam Kolko Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle Volunteers

of the Year Award

11:00 a.m. Wednesdays Bring the parashah alive and make it personally relevant and

meaningful with Rabbi Mark Goodman!

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

General Admission: $75 $150 VIP Front Row Table Seating

RSVP online at https://bethshalompgh.org/cometogether

November 5th at Beth Shalom and November 12th Downtown at David Horvitz’ office Egalitarianism has become part of the core of the Conservative Movement, but whence did it come?

This year, we will be exploring the Jewish legal basis of egalitarianism through responsa literature and halakhic sources.

We will be meeting both at Beth Shalom and Downtown. Please register at http://bethshalompgh.org/lunchandlearn/

To include lunch in your registration for the Lunch and Learn classes at Beth Shalom, you must register by noon on the Friday prior to the class.

(Lunch is not available downtown, but may be taken with you.)