By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 20, 2017
As an energetic group of her classmates boisterously load a white panel van with boxes of books, third-grader Eliana Wax is clear on why she’s enjoying today’s activity.“We hope that they’ll feel happy and glad that people they didn’t even know...
For the second consecutive year, this is a story that I wish I didn’t need to write. But for the second consecutive year, I’m left with no choice but to help my local Jewish community heal through the best way that I know how to do so—writing.Leading...
After grabbing national headlines with its push for a pre-Shabbat starting time, the Robert M. Beren Academy of Houston registered a decisive 58-46 win over Dallas Covenant to secure a spot in the 2A private and parochial boys basketball state championship...
NEW YORK -- A Texas athletic league has reversed course and will reschedule tournament games that will enable a Jewish day school, the Robert M. Beren Academy of Houston, to compete. The Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, known as TAPPS,...
A Texas school association voted a second time not to reschedule a state tournament semi-final game so that an Orthodox high school can play. Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools executive board voted Wednesday 8-0 with one member absent...
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...
NEW YORK -- An Orthodox high school in Texas was rejected in its request to have the state basketball semifinals rescheduled to avoid a conflict with the Jewish Sabbath. In a decision Monday, the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools informed...
JERUSALEM -- American pop star Whitney Houston, who visited a community of Black Hebrews in Israel in 2003, has died at the age of 48. Houston was discovered dead Saturday afternoon in the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. just hours before...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA
• Published February 2, 2012
NEW YORK -- With day school tuition fees on the rise, New York housing costs among the highest in the nation and the job market still tough, the Orthodox Union has a solution for Orthodox Jews under pressure: Move to Houston. In a first-of-its-kind partnership...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill requiring homeowner associations to permit religious displays on residents’ doors, including mezuzahs.According to the law, the religious item must be under 25 inches and remain in the doorway.The law, signed June...
