Tackling A New Field - The Jewish Week - NY
Veingrad, an offensive lineman during seven NFL seasons, will attend the synagogue’s pre-game program to tell his life’s story, with a focus on his life after football, when he underwent a spiritual metamorphosis from secular Jew to chasidic Jew. A bearded, Sabbath-observant, kipa-wearing member of the Chabad-Lubavitch chasidic movement for four years, Veingrad is, as far as is known, the only Jewish athlete on a team sport in the country who has ever adopted an Orthodox lifestyle.
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