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February 03, 2008
Dallas Cowboy Vet Now Running the Rebbe's Playbook
Let me continue my Dallas Cowboys skein with a most surprising story: Alan Veingrad, an offensive lineman on the 1993 Cowboys' Super Bowl winning team, is now a Chabadnik. The NY Jewish Week tells his tale here. Veingrad retired from football after the Super Bowl season and began seeking to a fill a spiritual void. An Orthodox cousin invited him to a Shabbat dinner, then Torah classes. One thing led to another:
Slowly, he started attending classes and Shabbat meals under Chabad aegis. “I wanted to feel all the time the inspiration I felt on Friday nights,” he says. After a trip to Israel four years ago, when he started wearing a kipah and tzitzit, he and his wife and three children decided to commit themselves to an observant life. Their kitchen was kashered, the children were enrolled in Jewish day schools. Alan became Shlomo, the Hebrew name he had received at birth. “I never looked back,” Veingrad says.
The next logical step would be for these good people to park their Mitzvamobile outside Texas Stadium on Sunday game days for a kosher tailgate party.
Van | 02/03/08 at 10:37 AM | Categories: - Jews in odd places
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