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Adventist school will permit the star basketball
player to take Judaic courses at a nearby day school.
vant Jews, observe sundown Friday to
sundown Saturday as the Sabbath, so
there are no activities scheduled dur-
ing that time.
amir Goodman, a kippa-
The school, founded in 1904, is
wearing prep star who has
part of the Columbia Union College,
drawn national headlines,
an Adventist-based college. The school
will finish his high school
is a non-residential co-educational sec-
career at the Takoma Academy, a
ondary school. It also has one of the
Maryland-based
state's largest high school gyms, seat-
Seventh-Day
ing up- to 5,000 fans plus complete
Adventist institu-
locker rooms for its students, three
tion, located just
playing fields, an outdoor basketball
minutes from the
court and a 400-
University of
meter run-
Maryland cam-
ning track.
pus where he'll
It offers a
one day play
course load
his college bas-
that
ketball.
includes
Takoma
everything
Academy,
from computer
which is also
applications to fine arts to
known in sub-
foreign languages, the sci-
urban
ences, physical education,
Washington,
social studies and math-
D.C., as TA,
ematics.
doesn't belong to
In its admission
an interscholastic
statement, Takoma
conference. As an
Academy "values the
independent it com-
diversity of multiple
petes against other
cultures" and "wel-
conference and non-affili-
comes students
ated schools. Many of those
of all races, gen-
schools are at the highest
ders, national
competitive level.
and ethnic
Goodman, a former stu-
origins."
dent at Baltimore's Talmudical
It also
Academy, will be taking a secu-
writes that "appli-
lar academic course load at
cants of all faiths should
Takoma. He will not be
seriously
consider their
required to enroll in any
desire to live in harmony
Christian-based classes.
with the standards of edu-
The school, according to
cation as upheld by the
Goodman's coach, mentor
Tamir Goodman,
Seventh-Day Adventist
and friend Chaim (Harold)
an Orth odox Jew,
Church."
Katz, has agreed to permit
drives to the basket.
That it is a Christian-
the basketball star to pur-
based
school is not going
sue his Judaic studies on a
to
present
a
problem,
according to
daily basis at an area Jewish day
Katz. The school, he said, has been
school. That school's identity will
more than accommodating in adjust-
remain a private, family matter for the
ing to Goodman's requirements for
time being.
continuing his Judaic studies. 1 1
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