Hannah Schoenbaum

BYU Cougars QB Jake Retzlaff sits down and discusses what it's like playing football on Yom Kippur while being one of three Jewish students at a predominately Mormon school.

This year’s successful 9-1 football season for Brigham Young University, the Utah private school run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has an unexpected player at the

One of just three Jewish students in a student body of 35,000, the quarterback and team co-captain who worked his way into the starting lineup has used his newfound stardom to teach others about his own faith while taking steps to learn more about Judaism for himself.

One of just three Jewish students in a student body of 35,000, the quarterback and team co-captain has used his newfound stardom to teach others about his own faith while learning more about Judaism for himself.

PROVO, Utah -- Shortly after sunset on Saturday, Rabbi Chaim Zippel clasped an overflowing cup of wine and a tin of smelling spices as he marked the end of the Sabbath with a small Jewish congregation at his home near Provo, which doubles as the county's only synagogue.

PROVO, Utah -- Shortly after sunset on Saturday, Rabbi Chaim Zippel clasped an overflowing cup of wine and a tin of smelling spices as he marked

HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Shortly after sunset on Saturday, Rabbi Chaim Zippel clasped an overflowing cup of wine and a tin of smelling spices as

By Hannah Schoenbaum The Associated Press PROVO, Utah — Shortly after sunset on Saturday, Rabbi Chaim Zippel clasped an overflowing

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Shortly after sunset on Saturday, Rabbi Chaim Zippel clasped an overflowing cup of wine and a tin of smelling spices as he marked

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A shooting that left a faculty member dead and frightened students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel