{{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox religious building | building_name = YPC Shari-Eli | infobox_width = | image = 20150419_YPCSHARIELI_MOY.jpg | image_upright = 1.4 | caption = YPC Shari-Eli synagogue, in 2015 | map_type = Philadelphia | map_size = 250 | map_relief = 1 | map_caption = Location in [[Philadelphia]] | location = 728 West Moyamensing Avenue, [[Whitman, Philadelphia|Whitman]], [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]] 19148 | country = United States | coordinates = {{coord|39.9203844|-75.159674|region:US-PA_type:landmark|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | religious_affiliation = [[Conservative Judaism]] | rite = | region = | province = | territory = | prefecture = | sector = | district = | cercle = | municipality = | consecration_year = | status = [[Synagogue]] | functional_status = Active | heritage_designation = | leadership = {{nowrap|Rabbi Dr. Gail Glicksman}} | website = {{url|hypcsharieli.mailchimpsites.com}} | architecture = | architect = | architecture_type = | architecture_style = | general_contractor = | facade_direction = | established = 1948 {{small|(as a congregation)}} | groundbreaking = | year_completed = | construction_cost = | specifications = | capacity = | length = | width = | width_nave = | height_max = | dome_quantity = | dome_height_outer = | dome_height_inner = | dome_dia_outer = | dome_dia_inner = | minaret_quantity = | minaret_height = | spire_quantity = | spire_height = | materials = | nrhp = | added = | refnum = | designated = }} '''YPC Shari-Eli''' is an unaffiliated [[Conservative Judaism|Conservative]] [[synagogue]] located in the [[Whitman, Philadelphia|Whitman]] neighborhood of [[South Philadelphia|South]] [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], in the United States. Congregational services are lay-led. YPC Shari Eli was founded in 1948. It is South Philadelphia's last active Conservative synagogue<ref>{{cite news |last=Stern |first=Marissa |date=July 5, 2017 |title=Last South Philadelphia Conservative Synagogue Continues to Survive |url=http://jewishexponent.com/2017/07/05/last-south-philadelphia-conservative-synagogue-continues-survive/ |newspaper=Jewish Exponent |location=Philadelphia |access-date=July 7, 2017 |archive-date=July 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710130334/http://jewishexponent.com/2017/07/05/last-south-philadelphia-conservative-synagogue-continues-survive/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and only synagogue located south of Snyder Avenue.
== History == Young People's Congregation (YPC) Shari-Eli was founded in 1948 when a group of younger members of Shaari Eliohu (8th and Porter Streets), under the leadership of Kelman Israel, broke away, formed a Conservative congregation, and moved into the building of the former Shaare Torah synagogue at Franklin Street and Moyamensing Avenue.<ref>{{cite book |last=Meyers |first=Allen |date=1998 |title=The Jewish Community of South Philadelphia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NNWi5MGrAMsC&q=young+persons+shari+eli+philadelphia&pg=PA127 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |page=127 |isbn= 9780738549552}}</ref> YPC Shari-Eli established a building fund in 1953 with a goal to raise $25,000.<ref>{{cite news |date= March 15, 1953|title=Fund is sought by congregation |newspaper=Philadelphia Inquirer|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|page=B5}}</ref> Shari Eli remodeled its building in 1961. The congregation replaced the removable ceiling opening to the second-floor women's section balcony with a permanent ceiling.
Harry Bietchman was hired as rabbi in 1954 and served the congregation for 18 years. Israel Wolmark was appointed rabbi in 1972 <ref>{{cite news |date= August 4, 1972|title=Rabbi Israel Wolmark Appointed by Shari Eli|newspaper=Jewish Exponent|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|page=43}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.southphillyreview.com/news/other_places_of_worship-72306802.html |title=Other places of worship |date=March 17, 2005 |website=southphillyreview.com |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|access-date=April 6, 2015 |archive-date=April 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412185027/http://www.southphillyreview.com/news/other_places_of_worship-72306802.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and served for approximately thirty years.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ruderman |first=Wendy|date= December 30, 2006|title=God, mammon, and casinos |url=http://articles.philly.com/2006-12-30/news/25399158_1_sugarhouse-casino-casino-money-foxwoods-casino |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414123741/http://articles.philly.com/2006-12-30/news/25399158_1_sugarhouse-casino-casino-money-foxwoods-casino |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 14, 2015 |newspaper=Philadelphia Inquirer|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania}}</ref>
Struggling to attract a minyan for Shabbat services in December 1971, Shari Eli joined Shar Israel, 4th and Porter Streets, on Friday evenings for services, and then welcomed Shar Israel to its building on Saturday afternoons for the third meal and evening services.<ref>{{cite news |date= December 17, 1971|title=Y.P.C. Shari Eli|newspaper=Jewish Exponent|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|page=61}}</ref>
==See also== {{stack|{{Portal|Philadelphia|Judaism}}}} *[[History of the Jews in Philadelphia#Jewish Quarter of Philadelphia|History of the Jewish Quarter of Philadelphia]]
== References == {{Reflist|2}}
== External links == * {{official website|https://ypcsharieli.mailchimpsites.com}} *[https://www.facebook.com/YPC.Shari.Eli YPC Shari-Eli] at [[Facebook]] *[http://jewishexponent.com/ypc-shari-eli YPC Shari-Eli] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401082446/http://jewishexponent.com/ypc-shari-eli |date=2015-04-01 }} at Jewish Exponent
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