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[quote=Anonymous]We live in NOVA are Jewish and love it.  We purposefully picked it over MoCo.  I’m from an NY suburb while my husband is from Kansas, he feels like the rea is very Jewish, while I went through culture shock.  Our oldest goes to Gesher and we LOVE it.  FCPS did give kids the first day of RH off this year and everyone except 12 month employees are getting YK off, this is new and we are hoping permanent.  We have always found friends to celebrate Chaggim with and never have had any issues (even from our strict HOA) about our Sukkah every year.  While we are currently the only Jewish family on our block, we back up to another Jewish family.  With the release of the recent survey that said NoVA is the larges Jewish community in the DC area, they sent out a survey about Kosher restaurant options to try and get some Kosher restaurants.  The area around Woodson high school would probably feel the closes to NYC, they have even talked about bringing Hebrew to the Woodson Pyramid as a second language, but you will find nice communities in West Springfield, Burke, Fairfax, Alexandria, Arlington, Falls Church/McLean (near Rodef) and Herndon.  I would suggest spending a few weekends down here and maybe pop by services at the different area Shuls, talk to the families there and get a feel if it’s a good fit for you.

We love it here but as other posters said, it’s not as easy to just be Jewish like it is in the NYC area or MoCo, but we think it’s worth it.  Also, as previous posters said, commute here is king.  We rival NYC traffic so that should be a major point of consideration.  [/quote]

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