Does anyone know a good Rabbi in Austin?
by Bald Eagle on Dec 9, 2009 4:21 AM PST
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PrintBumped. Bruins in Texas or any Long Horns who might have information for BaldBruin, please help him out! We need him at the game. GO BRUINS. -N
Crazy title, but this post is not OT.
This past weekend, I attended a holiday party with some UCLA friends with whom my wife and I routinely travel to away UCLA football games. We usually pick one or two away games each year to attend which unfortunately has fallen off in recent years, as our kids have grown older and gotten more involved in fall sports, like soccer and flag football.
We've been to South Bend, Tennessee, several bowl games and to nearly all the pac-10 stadiums. We constantly try to do our small part to improve the impression many have that UCLA's fans "don't travel well".
It was on the bus ride from Chicago to South Bend in 2006 when our crew began planning our trip to Austin in 2010 to catch the UT vs. UCLA football game. Back then, we didn't care what day the game fell on or whether either team would be rebuilding or on the upswing. This was a game that couldn't be missed. 6th Street, UT Austin, Beer Gardens, great bars, a Saturday in the great state of Texas watching your favorite college football team do battle with the Longhorns, one of the country's premier athletic and academic institutions.
Out came our Blackberry's and IPhones to begin checking dates, flights and hotel availability as party-goers around us continued to drink in the holiday cheer.
"Holy crap," I exclaimed to one of my friends, "do you know what day the game falls on?"
"Yeah, Saturday September 18th. Why?" he replied.
"Well, guess what. Unless we can figure out a way to move the game or change the date of Yom Kippur, looks like we'll be watching the game at the family break-the-fast over brisket, bagels and Manischewiz wine."
"You're kidding" he dejectedly replied.
"Outlook doesn't lie" I responded turning my Blackberry, revealing the calendar entry from 9/18/2010.
Well, not sure what we're going to do just yet. Religion is fairly important to us, especially raising young children with an understanding of how important their heritage is. And this being the holiest day of the year, it appears unlikely right now that we'll be making the pilgrimage to Austin in 2010.
"You better post on this" my wife immediately said once she heard of the news, right after her knee-jerk reaction of "screw Yom Kippur", which she quickly retracted after realizing the gravity of the situation.
So here I am. Looking for some help from my blogger friends on BN. No sympathy. But maybe a call to action. Not sure you can provide any solutions other than a cathartic sounding board and I suspect there is little chance they will move the game. Not even sure who "they" are. But you never know. Maybe someone knows the head Rabbi in Austin and you can ask that he write a letter to the President of UT, or the Athletic Director or Mack Brown, pleading the case of the many Jewish UCLA (and UT) Football fans who won't be able to see the game live because they'll be fasting in temple, trying to repent for the many sins committed during the prior year (like the time I made one of my son's friends take off his USC sweatshirt before I drove him in carpool to school. Is this really a sin, I ask?)
Maybe we'll get lucky and kick-off will be scheduled for after sundown on Saturday and we all can go to temple during the day and break the fast with beer and brats in the parking lot of Darrell K. Royal, Texas Memorial Stadium later that evening. You never know.
I guess we start with finding a good Rabbi in Austin. Anybody have any leads?
Go Bruins!
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You Rock!
We constantly try to do our small part to improve the impression many have that UCLA’s fans “don’t travel well”.
Love it.
The best thing you can do for your children is to love their mother. John Wooden
Heard rumors that Texas Tech is taking the 9/18 game with the Longhorns
http://www.doubletnation.com/2009/11/11/1126363/2010-texas-v-texas-tech-game-moved
This will work out in your favor if true.
Wonder how that will work out for us
Texas and us don’t have any common open dates on our schedule, they’ll either have to get a bit creative in moving other games around too or else we might not be playing next year
Something Rotten in the State of Texas?
We’ve got games scheduled out to 2017 (Rutgers, Sept. 2, 2017). Are schedules (as far as dates) so fluid that they can be changed less than a year ahead without repercussion? If Texas does indeed schedule TTech (this link makes it sound like it’s a done deal and, oddly, makes no mention of UCLA being dumped or rescheduled) for our date, are they going to pay us some large sum for backing out of their commitment?
This just doesn’t sound right.
it would probably be rescheduled to a later year...
And, there is also a rumor that we will be playing TCU in Dallas next year instead…
Discussion on BON when that schedule came out made it sound like Tech was "going rogue"...
so to speak, in terms of that schedule. UT seemingly was not notified beforehand that TTech intended to schedule their home game w/Texas on that date, which seems to be confirmed by the comments at the end of the linked post.
While the big non-conference games are agreed upon years in advance, there is nothing stopping the teams from moving around the exact dates of the games, although it would require both teams to agree to modify the contract to do so – Texas can’t abide by Texas Tech’s tentative schedule without getting the Bruins to agree to a new gameday. Looking at our tentative 2010 schedule, there are not any good alternatives. The Bruins and Longhorns share no open dates; UCLA has a bye week following the Texas game that the Longhorns could likely accommodate (currently hosting Fla Atlantic), but we follow that bye with 8 consecutive (conference) games. I doubt the coaching staff would want to make that consecutive game stretch even longer.
formerly bruinhoo
Good luck on getting it to work out. My friend and I are hoping to find a way to make it out to Texas to witness what should be a fantastic game.
Anyone else hoping to get out to Texas for this game?
I am. But of course, I'll have a better idea next year as the date approaches.
The best thing you can do for your children is to love their mother. John Wooden
I'll be driving down from dallas, and hoping my dad can get time off to come in from LA
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
What kind of congregation you looking for, BE?
I’ve got a friend whose daughter is a sophomore at UT. All involved are MOT.
Louisiana born, California grown - bleed Blue and Gold, with a healthy dose of Purple mixed in.
by ucla84 on Dec 9, 2009 6:06 AM PST reply actions
I hope they get that or other time set in stone quick
I used to work at UT, daughter lives in Austin so I’m going if they can nail that date down.
Listing of Synagogues in Austin (because my future wife might not let me go if it's on Yom Kippur)
All this from Google…
Jewish Orgs at UT:
Chabad at UT (probably the best place to start)
www.chabadaustin.com – (512) 472-3900
Texas Hillel Foundation (another good place)
www.texashillel.org – (512) 476-0125
Synagogues in Austin:
Congregation Agudas Achim (conservative)
www.caa-austin.org – (512) 735-8400
Temple Beth Shalom (reform)
www.bethshalomaustin.org – (512) 735-8900
Congregation Beth Israel (reform)
www.bethisrael.org – (512) 454-6806
Have you considered
finding a time zone in which sundown will be before kick-off (there must be one somewhere in the world), and celebrating the entire Holy Day on that time zone’s schedule?
You may be deprived of attending a formal service, but you can probably create a Reformed service of your own.
sjh
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