{"id":2356,"date":"2008-02-27T21:46:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T05:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2008-02-28T15:50:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T23:50:22","slug":"jewish-boys-hoops-team-wont-play-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2356","title":{"rendered":"Jewish boys hoops team won&#8217;t play on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2008\/more\/02\/27\/sabbath.colorado.ap\/index.html?eref=mostpop\">DENVER (AP)<\/a> &#8212; State senators have taken up the cause of a Jewish boys basketball team whose playoff run may be halted because its players can&#8217;t play on the Jewish Sabbath.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s religious beliefs prohibit students from playing on the Jewish Sabbath between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Colorado High School Activities Association, which governs sports and other high school activities, rejected the team&#8217;s request for a schedule change.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of morning debate in the state Senate on Wednesday, Majority Leader Ken Gordon, D-Denver, called on the CHSAA to be more flexible.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) &#8212; State senators have taken up the cause of a Jewish boys basketball team whose playoff run may be halted because its players can&#8217;t play on the Jewish Sabbath. The Herzl\/Rocky Mountain Hebrew Academy team could be headed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2356\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[592],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}