David Gregory Profile…

The Daily Beast’s Lauren Ashburn profiles Meet The Press host David Gregory…

For NBC’s David Gregory, if it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press. If it’s Friday night, it’s Shabbat with his wife and three young children.

The 6-foot 5-inch, prematurely gray-haired television host, who spars weekly with the nation’s top politicians, has learned how to leave his boxing gloves at the front door. “We have a great ritual…of lighting the candles and saying our blessings and talking about what we’re thankful for this week,” he says.

It wasn’t always this way. His wife, Beth Wilkinson, whom he met while covering Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombing trial, is an attorney and former general counsel for Fannie Mae. She is not Jewish. But since their marriage in 2000, she has encouraged Gregory to understand more about Judaism. “She had a lot of questions about faith, and I didn’t feel like I knew enough to field some of those questions,” he says.

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