Rabbanit Dasi Fruchter
South Philadelphia Shtiebel
Dasi (she/her) is the founder and spiritual leader of the South Philadelphia Shtiebel, a new and inclusive Modern Orthodox community in South Philadelphia.
The Shtiebel is not just any shul. It is a community center, buzzing with spirited Jewish learning, kids playing, new friendships forming, and lively prayer services. It is a warm and accessible space, where both lifetime shul-goers and people who haven’t set foot in a synagogue in twenty years can feel invited to be active participants in Jewish life. And it’s a genuinely unique space, a space rooted in halacha, or Jewish law, and also a home for emergent ideas.
About Dasi
Rabbanit Fruchter also holds the position of Halachic Advisor for Niddah and Women’s Health at Beth Sholom Congregation. She has served as an Assistant Spiritual Leader at Beth Sholom Congregation and Talmud Torah in Potomac, MD, the largest Modern Orthodox Congregation in the Washington Metropolitan area. Originally from Silver Spring, Maryland, Rabbanit Fruchter was ordained by Yeshivat Maharat in June of 2016 upon completion of the Maharat Semikha Program combining a mastery of the texts of Orthodox Jewish law with pastoral education.
She graduated summa cum laude from the Macaulay Honors College at Queens College and completed an M.P.A. in Non-Profit Administration and an M.A. in Jewish Studies from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service.