The following report appears in The Seattle Times: A team from a Mercer Island Jewish school has forfeited its game today at the girls state basketball tournament in Yakima. This is a fast day on the Jewish calendar, and the head of the Northwest Yeshiva school says the girls won’t play without water.
The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association wouldn’t reschedule the game because of the impact on other teams in the tournament.
Players from the school Mercer Island school that has about 60 students say they are glad to have made the state tournament.
When they are scheduled to face St. John-Endicott at 12:30 p.m. the players plan to line up, shake hands with the other team and wish them the best.
{Seattle Times/Noam Amdurski-Matzav.com Newscenter}
Kiddush Hashem!
nu nu 🙂
very nice. now that takes guts and i wish then all i wonderfull purim. they should all hold there heads up high. what a kiddish hashem.
what a kiddish hashem. those girls should hold there head up high. afralichm purim to u all and everyone reading this.
sue them
Baruch Hashem! This is a Kiddush Hashem! Showing other kids that you put your religion before sports and tournaments. I am proud of them.
Why is this a kiddush Hashem? Are they being mekadesh Hashem by engaging in Chukas Hagoi, ie sports? The mere fact that Jews are engaging in sports is actually a chilul Hashem.
yes number 7,
it is all about sitting around and eating shmatlz herring, chulent and kishke.
This is what makes it a kiddush Hashem: that they have perspective to realize it’s ONLY A GAME and a willing to forfeit rather than make a tumult.
I think this is a great zechus for all involved and may they see great peiros!
It should have been up to the individual kids. The objections to them playing had an awful lot of comments about the inappropriateness of women playing sports.
I hope the non-frum kids at the school (and there are many of them) don’t get turned off to Orthodox Judaism because of this.
#7 u disgust me
God Bless these girls. This is a powerful lesson: that sometimes, doing what is right is better than winning.
#5: Sue who, for what? No one did anything wrong.
#7: Based on what I’ve been reading, this is a school that consists of many girls who would be in public school (at best) if it wasn’t for this one. In that situation, I don’t think it can ever go under the category of “Chukas haGoyim” (whether it would considered that or not in a typical school that serves our community is an interesting question for another time, but here I don’t think it applies).
shane shame on the washinguon inter scholastic association leadership for their failure to guide the girls who make up the teams in the association eith the credo of respect for the faith and religiouis practices of their fellow students which makes this country the greatest in the worldl
a victory bt default is mwaningless
kudos to the girls of the teasm that ztood up high and tall,000r on their dignity and earned as champions in their sphere
hail to the champs
14 (Pesach Levovitz) I have a hunch that they have all the shalosh regalim, as well as Shabbos (taking into consideration the Shabbosos that end late) on their calendar. This was an innocent oversight. Let it go.