From a Washington Jewish Week article on a United Jewish Communities conference in D.C. last March that Gregory addressed:
NBC chief White House correspondent David Gregory talked about how he discovered the importance of Judaism in his life. In a conversation with [Erica] Brown [scholar of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington], with whom he has been studying Jewish texts since September, Gregory recounted how he was brought up Jewish ‹ son of a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother ‹ with a sense of "peoplehood and tradition," but not much "theology or spirituality." But, with the encouragement of his non-Jewish wife, it was "enough to carry me to a sense of identity" and give him a desire to "probe further" the question of "Why be Jewish?"
"What I decided was [that] what mattered was not just a sense of actual knowledge" or attending High Holiday services, "it was to understand how to live Jewishly ... [and] find daily meaning in Judaism."
So now "Shabbat has become a lot more important to me" as a way to "stop and think about what matters most to me ... what kind of father and husband I want to be." And he says a bedtime Sh'ma with his children as a way to model Judaism for them and "create a Jewish narrative in their lives that's not just obligatory."
David, how does this engagement affect your views of the Jewish state?
Did anyone listen to 'All Things Considered' on NPR today? They had a Hamas official speak. Here is what he said, "This has nothing to do with rockets because there are no rockets fired." He later goes on to say that it is collaborators asked by Israel to fire rockets from Gaza.
Here is the link and judge for yourself.
Wow.
Incredible! An Arab said it, so it couldn't possibly be a lie!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98794206
Here is the correct link.
I'm sure its very convenient, career wise, for David Gregory to emphasize his Jewish blood. There are probably also psychological rationales motivating ambitious Americans with even on drop of Jewish blood to identify as Jews, too. It allows them to engage in shameless careerism, while still identifying themselves as "victims" (as per the polished organized Jewish narrative) hence whenever they stab yet another associate in the back during their climb up the career ladder, its all a matter of "survival," and has nothing to do with a lack of ethics or moral character. (David Gregory's wife no doubt was looking for the added zeros to his paycheck that identifying as a Jew might bring home. Got to pay for those crucial shopping sprees.)