::::: His ethnicity is not in question. I recognise that there exists something of a taboo in describing certain types of individuals as being Jewish, in the UK and US media, over recent decades, at least. What puzzles me somewhat is how this seems to carry across into WP too. I never see any issue with individuals being described as, say, British Pakistani, or African American, or Chinese Korean, but I have noticed on numerous occasions that there is a real resistance on WP to some individuals being categorised as ethnically Jewish. I came to this article already knowing that Epstein is Jewish - I guess it is obvious from the name anyhow - and then was puzzled to see this detail not mentioned at all in what is a fairly long article.  
 ::::: I noticed a similar thing at Dominique Strauss-Kahn. I went to that article following his arrest and found no mention of his being Jewish. Sure enough, it turned out references had been removed following the arrest. 
 ::::: I can accept that there is a complication in that 'Jewish' is both an ethnicity and a religion, with many ethnic Jews being atheist, but I still feel that the current approach is not consistent and could better deal with this. 
 ::::: I'm happy for this thread to not continue any further unless others wish it to as I accept the resistance being shown and it is not a point which I personally wish to pursue any futher.