How the Jewish virtue of respecting elders can become a vice

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 GRAND RABBI Yaakov Aryeh Alter of Gur, Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and others celebrate at a wedding in 2023. When it comes to honoring elders, the Orthodox world gets it right, the writer says, but it must not become a tool for political exploitation and social stagnation. (photo credit: David Cohen/Flash90)
Age may indeed bring wisdom, but it does not guarantee it. When tradition is used to prevent education, economic participation, and basic civic equality, it becomes not a virtue but a vice.

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