Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen gets a Grammy in heaven

By Jeffrey Salkin — January 29, 2018
Leonard Cohen's posthumous Grammy was a Jewish achievement.

Charles Manson can go to hell

By Jeffrey Salkin — November 20, 2017
(RNS) — Charles Manson is dead. No one is about to sit shiva for him.

Bring this to synagogue on Yom Kippur

By Jeffrey Salkin — September 28, 2017
These Jews died during the past year. Each one wrote a Book of Life for the ages.

A kaddish for Walter Becker

By Jeffrey Salkin — September 4, 2017
What was Jewish about Steely Dan? Maybe more than we thought.

A depressing year of religion news

By Jerome Socolovsky — December 15, 2016
(RNS) Religion gave billions of people meaning in their lives and inspired good deeds this year, but in news coverage it was linked to bloodshed and blamed for fueling bigotry.

How Leonard Cohen taught Judaism to the world

By Jeffrey Salkin — November 11, 2016
(RNS) Leonard Cohen was a singer, songwriter and poet -- and a "rabbi."

Leonard Cohen is as Jewish as it gets

By Jeffrey Salkin — September 22, 2016
Leonard Cohen just turned 82. And he has given us a gift for the High Holy Days.

Hollywood needs more people like Stephen Colbert (COMMENTARY)

By Jeffrey Salkin — September 9, 2015
(RNS) Colbert is that rarest of rare birds -- someone in the entertainment world who not only takes his faith seriously, but who talks about it, and even taught about it -- in a local church, without fanfare.
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