Nate Ebner: Patriots Safety Writes Movingly About a Recent Trip to Israel — His First

Nate Ebner has played for the New England Patriots since 2012. During that time, he’s participated in three Super Bowls in which the Patriots emerged victorious. He has also been a champion rugby player. The 30-year-old Ebner — Jewish father, non-Jewish mother — was raised as a Jew and expresses a strong identification with the Jewish People. He recently traveled to Israel for the first time, a trip he wrote about in the essay linked below.
 
Quote: “My dad was Jewish and he made sure that I was raised Jewish. And when I say ‘raised Jewish,’ I mean the whole deal: going to temple, Sunday school every weekend and many attempts at reading the Torah (the key word being ‘attempts’ — it’s pretty hard to read when there aren’t any vowels). Basically, from a young age, my dad had definitely made a point to instill in me the importance of my Jewish heritage.”
 
Sources: Wikipedia, theplayerstribune.com
 
Learn more about Nate Ebner on Wikipedia >>
 
 
Read “My First Trip to Israel,” an essay by Nate Ebner >>
 
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