Undoubtedly Jaffee made errors (To the family of Myron Cohon and our community). Nothing excuses William Cohon’s “he occupies the Samuel and Althea Stroum chair in Jewish Studies, at the University of Washington, which means that both the State of Washington and the Stroum family vouch for him.”
Cohon was trying for more than just an apology, he was trying to destroy the man. The fact that you published that statement is harder to justify than your publishing Jaffee’s misstatements.