Temple Adath Israel of the Main Line (Hebrew: עדת ישראל) is a Conservative synagogue located in Merion, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
The synagogue offers religious services, pre-school, Hebrew Sunday school, adult education, and community programming.
Adath Israel continued to grow and the congregation purchased seven acres (two point eight hectares) at Old Lancaster Road and Highland Avenue in Merion in 1953 on the former site of Rose Hill, the estate owned by Charles Elmer Hires.
Solicitor General of the United States Simon Sobeloff presided over the laying of the building's cornerstone on June 13, 1954[4] and Rabbi Theodore Gordon of Main Line Reform Temple delivered the invocation.
[5] The congregation constructed and opened its Ralph Bodek Chapel, 900-seat Meyers Girsh Auditorium and 23-classroom educational building in time for the High Holidays that year.
Philadelphia mayor Richard Dilworth spoke at the ceremony, and was joined by former Senator Herbert H. Lehman and Governor Theodore McKeldin of Maryland.
[2] On November 9, 1981, a fire ravaged Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning's building at Broad and York Streets in Philadelphia.
Rabbi Steven Wernick followed and held the position from 2002 until 2009 when he was appointed Executive Vice President/CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism's Rabbinical Assembly.