"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."
"I was born into a tradition," he said. "Who am I to let it slip through my fingers?"
I wonder if David Gregory has read any unusual books lately?
David Gregory used to be chief White House reporter for NBC and is a colleague of NBC's Andrea Mitchell, spouse of former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan. Gregory earned his bachelor's degree at The American University in Washington, DC., where I earned an LL.M. in International Trade Law in December 1984. Gregory -- to the chagrin of former President George W. Bush -- speaks fluent French.
Incidentally, I incorporated a quote in my book Significant Moments in 2003 as a memorial to NBC reporter David Bloom, who died in Iraq in April of that year.
But I believe that my supposed personality, my supposed motivation, and my supposed hunger for publicity really had little to do with what was bothering these men. I believe that they could not get over the fact that . . .
J. Moussaieff Masson, Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst.
. . . months earlier . . .
Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes.
. . . pictures of me . . .
Mary Roberts Rinehart, Dangerous Days.
. . . had appeared in the New York Times . . .
J. Moussaieff Masson, Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst.
. . . including one in which . . .
Mary Williams Walsh, David Bloom, 39, Dies in Iraq; Reporter Was With Troops (New York Times, Monday, April 7, 2003).
. . . I was probably not dressed properly.
J. Moussaieff Masson, Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst.
Incidentally, I incorporated a quote in my book Significant Moments in 2003 as a memorial to NBC reporter David Bloom, who died in Iraq in April of that year.
But I believe that my supposed personality, my supposed motivation, and my supposed hunger for publicity really had little to do with what was bothering these men. I believe that they could not get over the fact that . . .
J. Moussaieff Masson, Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst.
. . . months earlier . . .
Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes.
. . . pictures of me . . .
Mary Roberts Rinehart, Dangerous Days.
. . . had appeared in the New York Times . . .
J. Moussaieff Masson, Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst.
. . . including one in which . . .
Mary Williams Walsh, David Bloom, 39, Dies in Iraq; Reporter Was With Troops (New York Times, Monday, April 7, 2003).
. . . I was probably not dressed properly.
J. Moussaieff Masson, Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst.
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David Gregory gives new meaning to the term High Holidays!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-BbjUSAD6w
Rick Sanchez: "Half-Jews are taking over the media!"
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