Retirement and Jewish Roots
When Veingrad had begun his NFL career with Green Bay, a local Jewish man who ran a shoe store had reached out to him and asked him to join his family for the Rosh Hashana services at K'nesses Israel, a synagogue near the site of the Packers’ original home field, City Stadium. Veingrad had not spent much time in shul. “But when I heard the Hebrew,” he said, “I felt a pull.”
Following the Super Bowl win, Veingrad retired from football back to Florida. He rediscovered his Jewish roots, and became an observant Jew, affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. He now uses his Hebrew first name, Shlomo, wears a kippah and ritual fringes called tzitzit, and travels around the country giving inspirational talks about his spiritual transformation.
Veingrad lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he is employed in commercial real estate lending by a major national firm.
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