High Holly Days Ticket, Congregation Shari Eli, 1977Ticket to High Holiday services at Congregation Shari Eli in 1977. The ticket misspells "High Holidays" as "High Holly Days." The ticket is from the congregation's location at Eighth and Porter Streets. Congregation Shari Eli, founded in 1916, is described as a struggling Young People's Congregation located at 728 W. Moyamensing Ave. in South Philadelphia. It originated as the orthodox congregation Shari Torah. In 1948, a group of younger members from the former orthodox synagogue Shari Eli at Eighth and Porter Streets bought the building and established South Philadelphia's first conservative synagogue. The English translation of Shari Eli is "Gate of God."