No Half Measures

In the article “Dreaming of Staten Island” (by Richard Natale, Oct. 7), filmmaker Raymond De Felitta was the latest person The Times has described as “half-Jewish.” Aren’t you going to quantify and disclose the rest of De Felitta’s religious heritage? Is he one-quarter Presbyterian? Three-eighths Wiccan?

Stop using this inaccurate and inappropriate term. One either is Jewish or is not.

G.L. KRAUSS

Los Angeles