Relocating from Brooklyn to DC area

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I would recommend that you look at Maryland rather than VA. Maryland has larger black and Jewish populations in its close-in suburbs, and is more traditionally friendly to both groups. You don't say where you work in DC, but many parts of Maryland are on the subway line. MoCo has excellent schools, and more private schools than NOVA, if that's the route you prefer.


This tired advice is about 50 years old, OP.

-NY Jew living in NoVa



This "tired advice" is coming from someone who has lived in both MoCo and NOVA. I wasn't even alive 50 years ago.



Why hang around a VA public schools forum? Troll



Because I live in NOVA! I used to live in Moco. But after the news of the last year or two, with Charlottesville, and the organizers of that march being from Fairfax and Alexandria, the blackface incident with the Gov and others, I would move to Moco if I were moving here now.



Give me a break with this! Charlottesville had people from all over the country attend. And a white woman from VA lost her life fighting these racist a-holes. I understand your resistance, but let's not kid ourselves. Racist asses live everywhere. In MoCo right now, antisemitism is off the charts. It's a crazy time we live in.

Yes, it is a crazy time. But this is my honest opinion, and I'm entitled to it. In the end, the OP will make their own decision.

You are entitled to your opinion. But facts are facts. MoCo may have a larger black community than NoVa, but MoCo is pretty segregated. Tell the whites in the Whitman clusters that blacks from eastern MoCo are going to be bused to their schools and see what happens. I highly doubt you're going to feel all warm and fuzzy after that reaction.

NP - Mongtomery County Schools does a LOT more to at least try to mitigate the impacts of segregated housing patterns in its County. Montgomery County Schools, by way of actual action, is fare more progressive than Arlington.

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I need to alert you to the fact that it is hard to find good bagels here! Brooklyn Bagels in Arlington is yummy - the next best thing to having a bagel in Brooklyn. And welcome!

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Anonymous wrote:As for synagogues: Maybe they've mellowed, but Agudas is the most traditional of the synagogues around and doesn't have a history of being welcoming to the interfaith. I'd definitely look at Etz Hayim if you want conservative or Beth El if you want reform.

We are members at Congregation Etz Hayim in Arlington. It is extremely welcoming to interfaith and bi-racial families (including ours). If you end up in Arlington or northern Alexandria, I'd highly recommend it.

Temple Micah in DC (which draws family from DC, NoVa, and MD) is another reform temple that is very welcoming to interfaith families (including ours) and to bi-racial families.
We live in North Arlington a few minutes from Key Bridge to DC, which makes Temple Micah closer to us than the NoVa temples. We like it very much. However, once our child got to a county-wide middle school, it turned out that his school friends who went to temple all went to Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, so many Arlington families who aren't at our end of the county go to Rodef.

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I would look into Hayfield or W Springfield. Housing decently priced with educated blacks.

We used to live in Kingstowne area but did not like Edison as our high school. We absolutely loved Kingstowne though. The area is very diverse. We are asian American from nyc. Lots of mixed races. Many military african Americans, feds and contractors.