Singing at the frontlines.
He was not Bob Hope on a USO tour.
A new book by Matti Friedman traces Cohen’s strange first trip to the Holy Land.
“No one sounds as silly as an atheist.”
A musician who answered the call of Jewish cultural renewal.
Friends, but never close, our paths intersected and then diverged, until this past September, when I connected with Leonard for the last time.
“I bet on him as on a racehorse, certain that he would become the guardian truth-teller of my generation.” (1995)
How a central prayer of the New Year liturgy reveals the day’s true spirit of awe and fear.
At age eighty, still wearing his "shul hat," the singer/songwriter has managed to manifest a moral strength rare among the butterflies of ephemeral fame.