These bookends are relatively tasteful and neutral:
http://www.moderntribe.com/judaica/j...az_bookholders
There's a
cool coffee mug that is a ceramic version of the "We are Happy to Serve You" cups that are all over NYC...it's pretty neat...
Not sure exactly how much you want to spend, though. You could look for something that says "Ahava" in Hebrew, which is sort of the same word that means either "love" or "give". I have an Ahava necklace, but it might be weird giving something that could mean "love" to a guy.
I dunno, you might want to just look for a generic 65-year-old-man gift, rather than assume that because he's Jewish he walks around in
tallit and that's all there is to him.
Here are a couple more fairly reliable Jewish gift sites:
http://www.judaicawebstore.com/Categ...?CategoryId=11
http://www.judaism.com/chabadstore.asp?cdo=chabad.org
Almost every local synagogue store I know of either redirects to or orders most of their stuff from that one.
You can also get a coffee table book of work by a Jewish artist, like
Chagall.
Hope that info was serious and useful enough for you.