By Shira Schoenberg, JTA
• Published April 3, 2012
Comments by the head of a Texas school association at the center of a controversy over Sabbath accommodations is fueling a drive by its members to be more open to the needs of Jewish and Muslim schools. Edd Burleson, the director of the The Texas Association...
FORT WORTH, Texas—In Texas, they say, high school athletics are a religion. But last weekend the saying took on a new meaning. The Robert M. Beren Academy, a small Modern Orthodox school in Houston, had captured national headlines during the week. Its...
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The Robert M. Beren Academy of Houston is playing Saturday night in the 2A private and parochial boys basketball state championship game. The game, which was set to start at 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, can be watched live via an...
NEW YORK -- The captain of an Orthodox high schol basketball team has sued a Texas public school district over the refusal to accomodate a request to reschedule tournament games that conflict with the Jewish sabbath. In a suit filed Thursday in U.S....
NEW YORK -- Chris Cole, the coach of the boys' basketball team at the Robert M. Beren Academy in Houston, says his squad is peaking coming off its 27-point victory in the state tournament quarterfinals. Apparently the Stars, who with a record of 24-5...
