From Our Spiritual Leader Cantor Henry Shapiro …...2015/10/11 · Jerusalem: A Cookbook by Yotam...

October 2015 Tishrei/Cheshvan 5776 Volume 19, Issue 8

From Our Spiritual Leader

Cantor Henry Shapiro

All Those Holidays, Festivals, and High Holidays Once again we come to the time of year when one Jewish holiday follows another until, by the end, we are nearly wiped out. My own personal term is Chag-ed out. Is there a way to rate these holidays? As I write this, it almost seems a bit heretical, like rating each of your children or trying to find which holiday you can skip. I’m not suggesting that. I’m just looking at which holiday gets attention or time in which areas. One measure might be the length, amount of extra prayers, or additions to the synagogue services. For example, there is rabbinic discussion in the Talmud of those holidays important enough to include, or rate if you will, Hallel in the morning service. Here’s a table of many of the Celebrations, and Jewish Holidays. Torah Readings Holiday Aliyot Additional readings Service Additions Weekday 3 (Monday, Thursday)

Coming Events

Friday Night Shabbat Services - 6:00 PM Saturday Morning Shabbat Services - 9:30 AM October 2nd & 3rd Pizza in the Hut Pizza kiddush following Friday and Saturday services in the Sukkah October 4th Erev Shemini Atzeret w/Yizkor 7 PM October 5th Shemini Atzeret w/Yizkor during Torah Service 9:30 AM Erev Simchat Torah - w/Live music and refreshments! 7 PM October 18th Sisterhood Paid Up Membership Brunch 11:00 AM October 22nd Dr. Crain Lecture Gateway Middle School 7:00 PM October 24th $ 25th Birthday Shabbat October 25th Home Coffee Roasting Workshop 11:00AM - 12:30PM $10/per person(or household) October 26th Learning @ PJC Adult Hebrew Adult bar/bat mitzvah class 6-7pm See Calendars for candle lighting times

Parkway Jewish Center

October 2015 Tishrei/Cheshvan 5776

Rosh Chodesh 4 Hallel (short) New month Channukah 3 Haftarah Hallel (short) Festivals 5 Haftarah, Hallel, Yizkor book of Ruth, Kohelet, or Song of Songs Tish B’Av 3 Haftarah Book of Lamentations Rosh Hashanah 6 Haftarah piyutim and additions to musaf Yom Kippur 6 Haftarah Yizkor, Kol Nidrei Neila ‘Modern Holidays’ Hallel (many do) Yom Haaztmaut (Israel Independence) Since it’s a once-a-week observance, we might not think about it, but Shabbat has the most aliyot. And the musaf service after the Torah reading is, in fact, an addition. The word musaf means addition in Hebrew and follows whenever the Torah is read. Shabbat 7 Haftarah Musaf There is one further metric of holiday observance we can use and that is total time immersed in a holiday. In the Hebrew Bible, the word מןעד, moed, is the term used for festivals and more literally it means appointed time. How much time is spent in shul, or observing a holiday? The clear winner in that category is Sukkot. A whole week of eating in the Sukkah adds up. It’s also considered a mitzvah ‘to dwell’ in the Sukkah. In Israel and places where it’s warm, safe, and dry enough, many Jews sleep in their Sukkah. Here in North America, in modern parlance, we are more likely to unfortunately be - chillin’ in the Sukkah! Chag Sameach, Cantor Henry Shapiro



Learning @ PJC October 26th, Monday 6-7pm (tentative) I’m gauging interest in a Hebrew beginner or refresher course, Adult Learning or Adult bar/bat mitzvah class. Those of you interested please contact me about a meeting time and day of the week. October 26th is a placeholder and we can reschedule for a more convenient time. We can also meet somewhere other than PJC, Squirrel Hill for example.

Home Coffee Roasting Workshop ** October 25th, Sunday morning, 11:00AM ‐ 12:30PM ‐ $10/per person(or household)

Are you a coffee lover? Why not take it to the next step and learn how to roast your own coffee. Home roasting is easy! It only takes 5 to 15 minutes and your reward is the freshest coffee around. It requires no fancy equipment and the green coffee beans are half the price of good roasted coffee from a retailer. This hands‐on workshop gives you the opportunity to roast your own batch of beans to take home.

In the meantime, see this website link about coffee green beans and roasting ‐ https://www.sweetmarias.com/

** Special ‐ Starting in October, the coffee served at Parkway will be our own fresh roast. Eat your heart out Starbucks!!!

Pizza in the Hut October 2nd & 3rd

Join us on the 1st Shabbat in October. Pizza kiddush following Friday and Saturday services in the Sukkah

Simchat Torah ‐ Music & Celebration October 5th, Monday evening, 7PM

Celebrate Simchat Torah with a short and fun service. We will bring out all the Torahs and process (Hakafot) around the sanctuary with live music and singing. Our PJC band, ‘Shir Fun’, will play klezmer and your favorite Jewish tunes.

*If you play an instrument and want to play with the band, please email

Cantor Henry Shapiro at [email protected]



From the President’s Desk………………………….Robert E. Korfin There was a time when I thought the High Holy Days were made up of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur; over and out, end of story. Being a Jew for me was straight forward and easy. Then, I became more familiar about Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah. In fact, it’s only recently that I learned how to pronounce Shemini Atzeret. Can you imagine telling your boss you need to take off for Shemini Atzeret? So why do you need the day off and Goldstein in accounting never takes the day? Go figure? The High Holy Days have been terrific this year. Cantor Shapiro keeps the service moving at a great pace and his added bits of information and humor makes the service enjoyable and meaningful. Many thanks to: Hal Lederman our Ritual Chairman and our Gabbai during the Torah reading; Allan Goppman and Charlie Rubin for reading the Haftorah and Torah respectively; and of course to all of you for accepting your High Holiday honors. While I’m thanking people, many thanks for returning your Kol Nidre Pledges so quickly. Remember, we need to repair two (2) of our Torahs and they may take a large sum of the money pledged. Please make your pledges larger than normal and then get them in soon. If you wish, you can email your pledge amount to Gail Levine at: [email protected] I will let you know about our Torah repairs as soon as we get an estimate of cost. I will keep you posted as we proceed. And thank you again….. Don’t forget about our PJC Goes to the Theatre in December. We are going to see the musical comedy, The Marvelous Wonderettes. We will be seeing the show at the Theatre Factory in nearby Trafford. After the show it’s off to Gail and Alan Levine’s for dessert. It should be a fun event, tickets will sell out so watch for the show details soon. Meanwhile, here’s a show trailer: https://youtu.be/9TxwzOH2v38 The Pittsburgh Chapter of Hadassah will return to PJC for their annual Horse Races in November. They could hold their annual fundraiser anywhere, but they seem to love coming back to Parkway Jewish Center. It’s a fun night that includes dinner, schmoozing with friends and of course betting on the ponies. See you in November. I hope my horse comes in and then we’ll talk again……. A note from Efrem Schwartz :Thanks to our entire PJC family, but especially Diane Bloomfield and Leslie Rubin for making the 75th Anniversary of my Bar Mitzvah such a beautiful experience for Elaine and me.



Kiddush & Oneg Shabbat Sponsors

PJC Sisterhood Ruth Daniels Diane and Harold Bloomfield Leslie and Charlie Rubin Allan Schwartz Bob Caplan

Kiddush Oneg Sponsorships Sisterhood invites you to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and other Simchas by sponsoring an Oneg Shabbat or Saturday Morning Kiddush. You can also sponsor in memory of a loved one’s Yahrzeit. For more information, call Diane Bloomfield at 412-373-9240 or Leslie Rubin at 412-371-8437

Donation Contacts: Donations to the Marilyn Markowitz/Phyllis Stein Memorial Library Fund can be made by calling the shul office.

OCTOBER ANNIVERSARIES

24 Lois and Ron Goldberg

OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS

2 Grouch Marx 3 Vera Greenberg

Randi Moldovan Quinn 7 Gail Brown 8 Alan Levine 13 Bryan Cain

Paul Simon Lenny Bruce

16 Sara Levine 17 Arthur Miller

Jerry Siegle 20 Art Buchwald

Herschel Bernardi 21 Benjamin Netanyahu

Richard Dreyfuss Henry Winkler Fanny Brice 31 Ira Mazer



October Yahrzeits Week of September 25, 2015 - 12 Tishrei Ruth Gumerman, Ada Klein, Evelyn Rosenthal, Ruth Barnett, Rose Chosky, Sylvia Morris, Alfred L. Reel, Blanch S. Sachs, M. Bernard Moskovitz, Selma Luterman, Jeff Caplan, Rose Rose, Max Joseph Birkenfeld Week of October 2, 2015 - 19 Tishrei Geri Miller, Jerome Harold Birkenfeld, Betty Ann Hackman, Charles Herman, Abraham Lubell, Ruth Pollack, Clara Weintraub, Meyer Bernstein, Dora Loundy, Hyman Loundy, Abraham Loundy, Ruth Hiller, Esther Moidel, Rose A. Schwartz, Jenny Kroll, Carol Caplan, Alfred L. Silberman Week of October 9, 2015 - 26 Tishrei Diana Lieberman, Sam Schiff, Joseph J. Goldstein, Lois Millen, Lee Gluckman, Abraham Glick, Simon Klein, Irwin T. Zimmerman, Samuel Lederman Week of October 16, 2015 - 3 Cheshvan Sandra Welner, Flora Young, Esther Steinberg Katz, Edith Pavloff Smith, Teresa Schwartz, Sol Feinberg, Marks Newman, Herman Simon, Arthur Krause, Reva Kushner, Harry Morris, Philip Reuben Caplan, Lazaras Edelstein Week of October 23, 2015 - 10 Cheshvan Clara Silverman, Yisrael Rubin, Lily Rosenberg, Arnold Landay, Isidor Pober, Maurice Sandler, Morris Tatar, John Krause, Esther Green, Sara Levine, Sarah Tannenbaum Week of October 30, 2015 - 17 Cheshvan Shirley Forman, Paul Kaye, Joseph Feldman, Samuel Kirshner, Joe Kaplitz, Gary Tell, Max Berkowitz, Rai Faron, Steward Handwerk, Jack Fiedler, Seymour Daniels, Dorothy Brill, Rosalyn Zilber If the name is printed in Bold, a Yahrzeit Plaque will be illuminated in the Sanctuary during the Yahrzeit week. If you would like to place a Yahrzeit Plaque in the Sanctuary, please call the Synagogue Office at 412-823-4338 between 9 am and 1 pm daily.

Condolences To: to Susie Feldman, on the passing of her Father, David Shapiro



LIBRARY NEWS The TOP TEN JEWISH BEST SELLERS--October-2015 FICTION 1. The English Spy: A Novel by Daniel Silva * 2. In the Unlikely Event:A Novel by Judy Blume 3. The Boston Girl: A Novel by Anita Diamant * 4. Saint Maize: A Novel by Jami Attenberg 5. Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner NON-FICTION 1. Ally:My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide by Michael B. Oren 2. Jerusalem: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi 3. The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook: Garden-Fresh Recipe Rediscovered and

Adapted for Today's Kitchen by Fania Lewando 4. KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann 5. On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks * by book means it is available in the PJC library If you are interested in reviews and news concerning recent publications and the happenings in the world of Jewish books the following are some sites to investigate: jewishbookcouncil.org; jewishusedbooks.com; pjlibrary.org; tabletmag.com; forward.com; jewishlights.com; yiddishbookcenter.org. THANK YOU to all for your monetary contributions that maintain the PJC library. THANK YOU for your donations of books. Just a reminder when leaving books in the library PLEASE do not bring religious books that need to be discarded by being buried! This is not the responsibility of the PJC library and creates a problem for us...thanks for your cooperation in this matter. Again any book you would like me to purchase call--724-864-2344 or email me at [email protected] are always welcomed! See you in the library, Betty Ann



CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP AND LOAN REFERRAL SERVICE

of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Administered by: Jewish Family & Children's Service 5743 Bartlett Street Pittsburgh, PA 15217 (412) 422-5627 Fax (412) 428-8200

CONTACT PERSON: Alayne Lowenberger, Director Central Scholarship & Loan Referral Service of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Jewish Family & Children's Service (412) 422-5627 [email protected]

Financial aid for 2016-2017 is available from the Central Scholarship and Loan Referral Service (CSLRS) of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. This program is administered by Jewish Family & Children's Service. The funds are made available through the generosity of families who have established endowments through the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, Jewish Community Center, National Council of Jewish Women, Jewish Women International of Pittsburgh (formerly B'nai B'rith Women), Jewish Home for Babies and Children, The Pittsburgh Foundation, and Rodef Shalom Congregation. Scholarships are distributed on the basis of demonstrated financial need. Some funding sources also require high academic achievement. In addition, the applicant must be Jewish, reside in Allegheny, Westmoreland, Beaver, Butler or Washington County for at least two years, and need financial assistance to attend an accredited institution of higher education as either an undergraduate or graduate student. For school year 2016-2017 Central Scholarship will again be using an on-line application process. The on-line applications will be available at http://www.centralscholarship.org in late November. For more information call JF&CS at (412) 422-5627 or write to: Central Scholarship & Loan Referral Service, 5743 Bartlett Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15217. First-time applicants must be interviewed. All applications should be submitted as early as possible to ensure processing. The deadline for 2016-2017 applications is February 11, 2016.



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Congregation Sha’ar HaShamayim 412-823-4338 www.parkwayjewishcenter.org

Cantor Henry Shapiro, Spiritual Leader ([email protected] or [email protected])

Officers President Bob Korfin

Board Members Marvin Heyman Mike Jacob Ira Mazer Harold Bloomfield Donna Wolfson Committee Chair Persons

House Chair Alan Levine Ritual Chair Hal Lederman Cemetery Chair Arnie Levine & Syma Levine

Office Administrator Gail Levine

Sisterhood Officers President Laurie Barnett Levine Vice Presidents

Membership Susan Mazer Program Vera Greenberg Fundraising Vacant Catering Leslie Rubin & Diane Bloomfield

Corresponding Secretary Vacant Financial Secretary Amy Mayer Treasurer Lynda Heyman Auditor Lynda Heyman

Scribe Staff Editor Harold Bloomfield

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