Herb Keinon
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Becoming that grandfather in the beret (opens the original)
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Kids these days,” goes the age-old lament of the elderly, “are not what they used to be — not as independent, not as disciplined, not as thoughtful.” That lament aligns with the age-old Jewish concept of yeridat hadorot: the idea that each generation is inferior to the one that came before. Except, of course, when it comes to grandparents. There — and I say this with all the objectivity of a grandfather myself — each generation of grandparents outdoes the one before. I grew up with only one pair
Reading the signposts (opens the original)
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Life is full of markers telling you that you are getting older. The Bar or Bat Mitzvah is one. High school graduation, another. Then college graduation, a full-time job, marriage, your first child, a mortgage. On and on it goes. Life is also full of signposts telling you that you are not getting older, but — rather — that you are now old. Full stop. Old. “Here, sit here,” a man on a bus at the airport said as I got on with The Wife, kindly offering me his seat. “Thanks, I’m OK,” I said, a bit hu
Reading the signposts (opens the original)
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Life is full of markers telling you that you are getting older. The Bar or Bat Mitzvah is one. High school graduation, another. Then college graduation, a full-time job, marriage, your first child, a mortgage. On and on it goes. Life is also full of signposts telling you that you are not getting older, but — rather — that you are now old. Full stop. Old. “Here, sit here,” a man on a bus at the airport said as I got on with The Wife, kindly offering me his seat. “Thanks, I’m OK,” I said, a bit hu
The Alaska perspective (opens the original)
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In most visitors, Alaska inspires wonder at its beauty, awe at its wildlife and admiration for the hardiness of those who make their lives in its vast backcountry, enduring some of the harshest conditions on earth. For Israelis, it can also inspire humility. Not because the Jewish state is smaller than Denali National Park, but because in Alaska one is reminded that the world neither revolves around Israel nor is obsessed with it. That realization came on a trip The Wife and I took to America’s
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