Popular demands for transparency in our institutions and the availability of technological means to achieve it have made it hard to keep secrets. This has affected the conduct not only of government and business but also of religion. In the Jewish community, repeated revelations of scandal—financial, sexual, or otherwise—have especially tarnished the reputation of right-wing Orthodoxy, whose relative insularity had kept from public scrutiny a steady accretion of questionable behavior.
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