Orthodox Jewish basketball team to get day on court

02.03.2012                      08.Adar. 5772

Texas:

Orthodox Jewish basketball team to get day on court

League officials agree under legal pressure to let Texas high school team move up playoff game to avoid conflict with Sabbath.

An Orthodox Jewish high school basketball team in Texas will not have to forfeit its playoff game after league officials agreed under legal pressure on Thursday to move up the game time to avoid a conflict with the Jewish Sabbath.
Before Thursday's abrupt reversal, the school, Robert M. Beren Academy in Houston, was going to have the team forfeit the game rather than play as originally scheduled after sundown on Friday night, at the start of the weekly Jewish Sabbath….