The Anti-Defamation League echoes the sentiments of the many readers who have contacted you about the use of the phrase "Jewish descent" in describing an individual in your police blotter this week.

We appreciate and recognize the importance of your managing editor's apology in which he acknowledged that a print deadline is never an excuse for fostering a hateful stereotype.

Jewish people, like those of any religion, are made up of persons of every race and do not have one certain look.

This particular stereotype has had tragic and genocidal consequences for Jews, and we sincerely hope this newspaper honors its commitment to think more critically and carefully in the future to avoid hateful, harmful generalizations and stereotypes from being printed in the future.