Talk:Peter Sagal

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I want more! Find out more about Peter Sagal!

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[edit] Jewish - So Nu?

Peter's work is in no way related to his Judaism. In any case, the inclusion of his brother's career as a rabbi says enough in that direction, should anyone be interested. I don't believe his brother's work is relevant here, but will leave that in - however, inclusion of religious background in this case is not relevant, and so I have removed the word "jewish" from the description. - Corporal Tunnel 19:30, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure? 'Cause I was gonna suggest that we move this page to Peter Sagal (Jewish guy). -Taco325i 15:38, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Does it really matter whether his work is related to Judaism? It is typical of encyclopedic entries for a person's ethnicity to be included. This is certainly the case on wikipedia. If you don't believe this is the case, I encourage you to look up the entries of Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein, Barbara Streissand, Joel and Ethan Coen, Kirk Douglas, Ben Stiller, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Nicholas Sarkozy, Jack Shaw, and etc. and etc. and et cetera. It is clearly the policy of wikipedia to include ethnic background in a person's description. The above examples have Jewish ethnicity in their backgrounds, but this convention is certainly not limited to jews. I'm putting jewish back in his description unless you can make a compelling case not too. 68.247.168.149 (talk) 20:27, 3 February 2008 (UTC)GMM

Einstein's entry doesn't begin, "Einstein was a jewish, German-born physicist." Rather, it's mentioned first in the section on his youth ("Albert Einstein was born into a Jewish family"), and later relating to his work with Zionism, his struggle with Nazism, and his specific contributions to Jewish culture. Putting "Jewish" first in this article makes it seem like the author feels Jews need to be labeled as such up-front, to make sure we know they're not Christian or whatever. I'm sure that wasn't intended, but when combined with the fact that "Jewish" is uncapitalized and separated by a comma from "American," it doesn't seem flattering. I've grouped the references to his family and ethnicity together, what do you think? 72.244.207.9 (talk) 09:07, 17 February 2008 (UTC)