When good women protect bad men

I've seen women throw other women under the bus in order to protect their men. But even I was a bit shocked at how fast this came hurling at me yesterday after I told some truths about my life.

A few years ago, I was chairing a panel at a big conference on women in Judaism on the topic of the agunah problem, chained women. The panel was composed of one rabbi/NGO director – a minor Jewish celebrity we’ll call Rabbi Armani – and three women whose names I did not recognize. The rabbi got up to speak, and the first thing he said was (slightly para…