Records and interviews reflect the family's financial stress, a recent decision to sell their Lake Tapps, Wash.

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Beren, an Orthodox Jewish day school in Houston with 67 students, appealed to TAPPS to reschedule the state semifinal against Dallas Covenant from 9 p.m.

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The people at Beren have produced emails from TAPPS showing the organization was upfront about telling the school that rules are rules, and the rule is, and I paraphrase, the playoffs operate on Jesus time.

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OK, so TAPPS, or at least its members, might have sent mixed signals on this point, last year rescheduling soccer semifinals for a Seventh-Day Adventist school that follows the same sundown Friday to sundown Saturday Sabbath as Beren.

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