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February 27, 2008 | 3:54 pm

Jewish boys team may forfeit Shabbat playoff

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

Evidenced by Jordan Farmar and contrary to what Cartman told Kyle, Jews can play basketball. Observant ones just can’t play on Shabbat. And that is causing a problem for some boys in Colorado.

DENVER—State senators have taken up the cause of a Jewish boys basketball team whose playoff run may be halted because its players can’t play on the Jewish Sabbath.

The Herzl/Rocky Mountain Hebrew Academy team could be headed for a regional championship on Saturday, March 8, if it wins one more game. But the Denver team’s religious beliefs prohibit students from playing on the Jewish Sabbath between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday.

If Herzl/RMHA makes it to the regional championship and refuses to play a Saturday game, another school would be chosen to take its place, CHSAA commissioner Bill Reader said.

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Sen. Tom Wiens, R-Sedalia, said there must be a way for the CHSAA to accommodate the team.

“It just seems like the bureaucracy has run amok here,” Wiens said.

Hat tip to my wife for sending this story, which is a fairly familiar one.

(Image: UCLA Jersey)

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I am very relieved to here that any sports team would observe the shabbat and defile it by playing (working) on this day.  I have a teenage son who’s into sports and has not adhered to the word of God concerning the matter.  Well it made our relationship more distant, but if that’s what it takes, that’s what it takes to get the point across that God is our first love.  I was not born jewish, but spiritually the scripture says that I am if I abide in him and keep his statutes and ordianances. Perhaps I may be apart of one of the lost tribes of Israel.

Comment by Joanne on 11/03/08 at 6:28 pm

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