[mtinkerhess]

It's problematic because the article isn't about their ethnicity, and your comment boils down to "hey guys just so you know, they're Jews." Who cares? Unless you're going to tie that back to the story somehow, what's the point of bringing it up? It's not explicitly antisemitic but it is a weird thing to highlight.

[olivermarks]

the 'weird thing to highlight' is that your average Joe thinks of that era of mobster as Italian...