[Pharmboy]

Mariss Jansons...the Latvian-Jewish

That struck me as weird. Were all the Catholics, Lutherans and Seventh Day Adventists in the article also identified as such?

As they say in Brooklyn: "What's up wit' dat?"

[Emperor Palpatine]

Back in the early 60's Vladimir Horowitz once joked with Emil Gilels what cultural exchange really was.

"You send us Jews from Odessa, and we send you Jews from Odessa."