OPINION: When Moses had a #MeToo moment

WASHINGTON (DC)
Religion News Service

January 2, 2018

By Jeffrey Salkin

You don’t see every revolution coming.

A year ago, no one would have predicted the fall of Harvey Weinstein, and other powerful men who have been accused (and in many cases, have confessed to) sexual harassment.

Let’s just call it the Tiananmen Square of Testosterone – the moment when women, all over the world, stood up in front of the tanks of malignant masculinity, and screamed: Enough.

#MeToo.

That revolution has already changed the world, and it is just getting started.

What’s next?

#MeToo is coming to the Jewish world.

Let’s call it “MeTooJew.”

I predict that it will come in the form of accusations of sexual harassment against high-level Jewish communal executives. The targets of those accusations will include major donors, using coercive sexual power against female staff members.

It is already starting to happen.

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