Fitting in through watching soccer
Herb KeinonJan 12, 2023
I’m not from the big cursers. Sure, an imprecation or two might slip out when a car cuts me off on the road (hopefully when the children are not riding with me). A...
What I’ve learned
Herb KeinonDec 08, 2022
As The Jerusalem Post turns 90, it’s time for me to reflect on 37 of those years — the ones that I have spent at that venerable newspaper.
My Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Ethiopian minyan
Herb KeinonNov 10, 2022
The World Health Organization may not have sounded the all-clear sign, the Health Ministry may still be on alert, and some people may still be getting sick, but in my...
FOMO. FOSP. FONN. FONGLA.
Herb KeinonOct 13, 2022
Everyone knows about FOMO — Fear of Missing Out — a term coined in 1996 by marketing strategist Dan Herman to describe an emotional state many of us feel at various...
Figuring out the happy Israel
Herb KeinonSep 08, 2022
I speak often to groups, both Jewish and non-Jewish, about Israel, and one thing that often surprises them is how high Israel ranks in all those various annual happiness...
Musings on the end of saying Kaddish
Herb KeinonAug 11, 2022
The 12-month journey of mourning one’s parents begins, to paraphrase Chairman Mao, with a single prayer.
Seeing what’s in your own backyard
Herb KeinonJul 07, 2022
“We have everything right here in our backyard, there’s no reason to travel anywhere,” my father said nearly every summer when I was a kid growing up in Denver.
The inadequate grandparents
Herb KeinonJun 09, 2022
“Which grandparents do you want to go to for Shabbat?” my daughter-in-law, Skippy’s wife, asked her son a few weeks back. “To Saba Urb and Savta Susie’s,” he...
