The problem with feminist allies who are also sexual predators

When the guys fighting for women's equality in public are attacking women in private, something is very wrong. Or, what happened when I went to Rabbinical School.

Rabbi Sally Priesand is heartbroken. As America’s first female rabbi, she has, by definition, needed a lot of men to get to where she is today. And some of those men, we all found out last week, while enabling her to break a particular stained-glass ceiling, were also sexual predators.

Take Rabbi Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, a man whose name was practically s…