{"id":56194,"date":"2017-03-15T09:49:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T14:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=56194"},"modified":"2017-03-27T16:56:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T21:56:23","slug":"snapshot-overland-park-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/community\/snapshot-overland-park-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"OU Jewish Communities Fair Snapshot: Overland Park, Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas evokes images of rolling wheat plains, heartland values and Toto and Dorothy. But Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City (KC), is also home to a dynamic Orthodox Jewish community growing in small, but certain steps.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Overland Park at the OU Jewish Communities Fair on April 30<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMuch of Overland Park\u2019s growth in the past decade can be attributed to\u00a0Congregation Beth Israel Abraham & Voliner (BIAV),\u201d said Mindy Wajcman, who grew up in Kansas City but moved to Overland Park with her family to be a part of the BIAV community. BIAV is the only OU shul in Kansas and all of Western Missouri, but one which counts nearly\u00a0200 member\u00a0families<\/p>\n

\u201cMany people see the benefits of raising a family in such a spiritually motivated and warm community,\u201d continued Mindy. \u201cThe shul\u2019s rabbi and lay leadership deeply value the importance of everyone having a role to play in making the synagogue thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overland Park is also home to a few small Chabad centers, a K-12 day school, Matmidim program, two mikvaot, a\u00a0kosher bakery\u00a0and prepared kosher food at a local market, with a kosher co-op to help fill in the gaps. An active kollel, founded in 2007, offers numerous Torah scholarship opportunities, like classes and one-on-one learning, under the direction of Rabbi Shaya Katz.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverland Park offers affordable living, a great quality of life and a warm and cohesive shul,\u201d said BIAV\u2019s Rabbi Dani Rockoff proudly, \u201cbut we are also part of a large metro area with a plethora of employment opportunities for everyone from doctors, to engineers, IT professionals, to entrepreneurs.\u201d Sprint, Garmin, Teva, and Hallmark are just some of the major companies with corporate headquarters in KC\u2019s metro area.<\/p>\n

Housing is abundant and affordable\u2014a quick online search yield results like beautiful 4-bedroom homes for under $400,000 and townhomes in the $100,000 range. A volunteer\u00a0network of professionals in the community helps prospective residents connect to job opportunities and get settled in homes with reduced rentals rates, free membership to the shul and several free months at the JCC.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverland Park is consistently rated as one of the top places to live in the United States,\u201d said Rabbi Rockoff. \u201cIt\u2019s an ideal place to raise a family.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, as Dorothy said, there\u2019s no place like home.<\/p>\n

Check out more Torah communities outside the metropolitan area at our biannual Communities Fair on April 30!<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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