Leonard Cohen
Is the eclipse good for the Jews?
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 5, 2024
It's not only the sun that was in eclipse. It's something else, as well.
We need a post-October 7 Talmud: a conversation with Liel Leibovitz
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 7, 2024
You think that the Talmud is just an old, arcane book? Guess again. It might be what our culture needs.
“Golda” is a triumph
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 28, 2023
Come for an Oscar-worthy performance by Helen Mirren. Stay for a tear-stained history lesson that is still relevant and powerful.
The best books of 2022
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 27, 2022
They piled up on my nightstand, crowded my Kindle, and invaded my brain. You will love them, as well.
Bring Leonard Cohen home for the High Holy Days
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 22, 2022
What can a late, lamented singer-songwriter teach us about inwardness and the Jewish new year? Plenty.
The hidden truth in ‘Hallelujah’
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 2, 2022
(RNS) — It is one of the most covered songs in history. There is far more going on here than meets the ear.
Leonard Cohen’s greatest concert
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 15, 2022
(RNS) — This was not a Bob Hope USO tour. It was something far deeper.
Why Ruth Wisse matters
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 13, 2022
A Yiddish lesson -- from one of the greatest thought leaders of our time.
‘So, what are you reading these days?’
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 29, 2021
(RNS) — Let’s hope we are not in for another lockdown. But if we are, these books will keep you company.
Five years after his death, Leonard Cohen is more than ever a man for our times
By Marcia Pally — December 4, 2021
(RNS) — In dark times, Cohen helps us answer: How did we get here?
They returned to synagogue. Now what?
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 8, 2021
(RNS) — What we do not know yet is simply this: When they can come back to live, in-person worship, will they?
On the day they wounded New York
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 10, 2021
Twenty years later, and the smoke has not yet cleared.
A religious analysis of that Super Bowl Jeep commercial
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 9, 2021
(RNS) — That Jeep commercial with the Boss? It was a sermon.
When Leonard Cohen wrote about Eichmann
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 30, 2018
Eichmann was normal. Deal with it.
Where have you gone, Paul Simon?
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 6, 2018
Paul Simon's music was often Christian. And sometimes, more Jewish than he thought.
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