It was not a sentence I expected to hear from the 6-foot-5, seemingly gentile giant who was towering over me. â??Hey, Iâ??m a nice Jewish boy from the Valley,â? David Gregory revealed as we chatted at NBC Studios in Burbank.
The year was 1995, and I was senior producer of a network program that had begun featuring reports from Gregory, then a 24-year-old local TV reporter. He explained that his father was Jewish, his mother was not, and that heâ??d been raised in a Reform congregation and had become a bar mitzvah.
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