Editing David Brooks (commentator) (section)

==Personal life==
Brooks met Jane Hughes, his first wife, while both attended the University of Chicago. She [[Conversion to Judaism|converted to Judaism]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/times_new_york_conservative|title=The Times' 'New York Conservative'|work=The Jewish Week|access-date=January 24, 2013|archive-date=September 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921061210/http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/times_new_york_conservative|url-status=dead}}</ref> and changed her given name to Sarah;<ref>{{cite news|last=Brooks|first=Sarah|title=What's in a name? In part, my religion|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1505354201.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610081548/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1505354201.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 10, 2014|newspaper=Washington Jewish Week|date=June 19, 2008}}</ref> they divorced in November 2013.<ref name="Washington Post 2013">{{cite news | title=Love, etc.: David Brooks and Sarah Brooks divorce | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=November 18, 2013 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2013/11/18/love-etc-david-brooks-and-sarah-brooks-divorce/ | access-date=May 3, 2017}}</ref><ref name="div">{{cite news |last=Lamb |first=Brian |author-link=Brian Lamb
 | title = Q&A with David Brooks
 | work=[[C-SPAN]]
 | date=February 8, 2015
| quote = (40:42) Lamb: Are you divorced or not? Brooks: I am divorced, yes. And I don't want to personally, I don't want to legally, talk about it, but yes, I am divorced. ... I do believe in marriage, mine didn't work out, I desperately want to get married to somebody.
 | url = http://www.c-span.org/video/?324043-1/qa-david-brooks |access-date=May 3, 2017}}</ref> Their eldest son volunteeered at age 23 to serve in the [[Israel Defence Force|Israeli army]] in 2014, as Brooks shared in a September 2014 interview for Israeli newspaper ''[[Haaretz]]''.<ref name="Haaretz interview"/>

Brooks [[Conversion to Christianity|converted to Christianity]] over a period between 2013 and 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Brooks on Faith in Polarized Times |author=Interview with Francis Collins |authorlink=Francis Collins  |url=https://biologos.org/resources/david-brooks-on-faith-in-polarized-times |date=2022-05-23 |website=Biologos}}</ref> He married Anne Snyder in 2017; they met while he wrote ''[[The Road to Character]]'' and she was his [[research assistant]].<ref name="Washington Post 2017">{{cite web |first=Emily|last=Heil| title=New York Times columnist David Brooks weds his former researcher Anne Snyder | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] | publisher=[[Nash Holdings]]|location=Washington, D.C.|date=April 30, 2017 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/04/30/new-york-times-columnist-david-brooks-weds-his-former-researcher-anne-snyder/ | access-date=May 3, 2017}}</ref>