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 there 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. As of 2008 Beth Israel Abraham Voliner was the only Orthodox synagogue in Kansas City. As of 2010 it was the only Orthodox synagogue in the State of Kansas, and the rabbi was Daniel Rockoff.
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