On March 19, 2019, the world press widely reported that the chief executive of Volkswagen (VW), Herbert Diess, apologized for.
“What editor decided that this was an appropriate piece to mark the week of Hanukkah? It’s offensive,” said Deborah Lipstadt, a professor at Emory and an authority on antisemitism.
The editor in chief of the
Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, tweeted initially that there was a small chance the
Times article was a parody. In a follow-up tweet, Goldberg quoted the article’s sentence that said, “My kids … won’t learn the prayer that begins Baruch atah Adonai, sacred words that are nonetheless empty to them.” Said Goldberg: “I have questions about this @nytimes piece, including: How could these words be empty to a person who is not even taught they exist?”