It's time for another installment of our "Ask Jew or Not Jew" feature, where young readers write in for advice. Here's a letter we recently received.

Dear Jew or Not Jew, can you please talk some sense into my parents? They keep making me practice violin, but I really want to play the cello! — Mackenzie Minsky, 13, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Dear Mackenzie,

This is not the first time... Wait? What? The cello? We didn't see that twist coming. The violin is obviously such a classic instrument of torture for Jewish parents (sometimes it's the piano), but you want to play the... cello? Huh?

Come to think of it, we don't even have a profile of a famous Jewish cellist... So here is one, Jacqueline du Pre, who is regarded as one of the greatest ever! She, like you, asked her parents to learn the cello! (Oh. Not born Jewish, but converted upon marriage to a Jewish... pianist. That adds up.)

Dear Mackenzie's parents,

Let your child pick their own method of suffering!

Yours in parental torment,

Jew or Not Jew.