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Congregation Beth Israel Abraham Voliner is an Orthodox Jewish congregation in Overland Park, in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Formally established as ''Tefereth Israel'' in Kansas City, Missouri in 1894, by 1960 it had moved several times, and merged with three other congregations, taking on its current name. Responding to demographic shifts in Kansas City's Orthodox community, it opened a branch in Overland Park in 1987, and in 1994 it moved to its current location at 9900 Antioch Road.〔〔 Morey Schwartz was the congregation's rabbi from 1991 to 2000,〔 Ari Perl served from 2000 through 2003,〔〔 and David S. Fine served from 2003 through 2008.〔 Beth Israel Abraham Voliner was the only Orthodox synagogue in Kansas City.〔 it was the only Orthodox synagogue in the State of Kansas,〔 and the rabbi was Daniel Rockoff.〔 ==19th and 20th centuries== Congregation Beth Israel Abraham Voliner (also Congregation Beth Israel Abraham & Voliner or Congregation Beth Israel Abraham and Voliner or BIAV) was established in Kansas City, Missouri as the Tefereth Israel (or Tiferes Israel〔''American Jewish Year Book'', Vol. 21, p. 412.〕 ) (Hebrew for "Splendor of Israel") Congregation in 1894. It grew out of a prayer group called ''Etz Chaim'' (Hebrew for "Tree of Life"), which began gathering for ''minyan''s (prayer quorums) in 1890. In 1905, it moved to a building at Admiral Boulevard and Tracy, and later merged with Beth Abraham and Beth Hamedrash Hagadol congregations.〔BIAV History, Beth Israel Abraham Voliner website.〕〔Wiley (2004).〕 In 1918, the rabbi was S.M. Bayarksy.〔 The congregation moved to a building at 83rd and Holmes in 1959, and in 1960 merged with Voliner Anshei Sefard, when it took on its current name.〔〔 As Kansas City's Orthodox community moved from Missouri to Kansas, Beth Israel Abraham Voliner followed. In 1987 it opened a branch in Overland Park, and in 1994 it moved to its current location there at 9900 Antioch Road, the former Overland Park Baptist Temple. The move attracted younger families, "and more Bar and Bat Mitzvahs were held in 1999 than in the entire previous decade."〔 Morey Schwartz served as the congregation's rabbi from 1991 until 2000, when he and his family moved to Israel.〔''Journal for the Study of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry'', Summer 2008, p. 104.〕 In the summer of 1997 he set up Kansas City's first ''kollel'', a post-graduate institute for advanced studies of the Talmud and of rabbinic literature for Jewish men; it closed in 2005 due to a lack of funds.〔Bayer (2007).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Congregation Beth Israel Abraham Voliner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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