Respect Your Elders - But Not On Bended Knee

Judaism gets respect for elders right - but the rabbis are abusing it. TRIGGER WARNING: This contains some Yiddishkeit!

For some Jews religion is quite a burden, especially in the Jewish State. One cannot pass a week without encountering the exhausting debate over enforced Sabbath observance in the public domain – truly a scourge. One cannot have a war without revisiting the quarrel over religious youth who evade the military on account of a scam involving seminaries.

But…