Editing Matt Lauer (section)

== Early life ==
Lauer was born in [[New York City]], the son of Marilyn Lauer, a boutique owner, and Jay Robert Lauer, a bicycle company executive.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/16/Matt-Lauer.html |title=Matt Lauer Biography (1957–) |publisher=Filmreference.com |access-date=March 17, 2009}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=December 2017}}

Lauer's father was of [[History of the Jews in Romania|Romanian Jewish]] ancestry, as seen on the ''Today Show''{{'}}s ''Finding Our Roots.''<ref>Matt Discovers His Roots on NBC's ''Today Show''.  Retrieved August 24, 2008.{{full citation needed|date=November 2017}}</ref><ref name="test">{{cite news |work=[[J. The Jewish News of Northern California|Jweekly]] | date=April 18, 2008 |title=Celebrities |last=Bloom |first=Nate |url=https://www.jweekly.com/2008/04/18/celebrities-16/}}</ref> Lauer said, "My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything. I do feel a desire now to find something spiritual. Getting married and wanting to have kids has something to do with that."<ref name="Zaslow">{{cite interview |interviewer=Jeffrey Maslow |url=http://www.usaweekend.com/00_issues/000430/000430matt_lauer.html |title=The Lauer Within |first=Matt |last=Lauer |work=[[USA Weekend]] | date=April 30, 2000 |access-date=July 17, 2007}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>