Earlier this year, the board of governors of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, my rabbinic seminary, retained Morgan Lewis, a leading law firm, to conduct an independent investigation and thoroughly review allegations of past sexual harassment, gender bias, and other forms of inequitable treatment at HUC-JIR. The report was released earlier this month—and it contained serious and credible allegations of gender and other forms of discrimination and sexual harassment at HUC-JIR, occurring over decades. There were no secrets: the Jewish Telegraphic Agency picked up the story and soon every major Jewish and secular newspaper was shouting headlines about the...