Leonard Cohen
A musician who answered the call of Jewish cultural renewal.
June 27 2017 12:01AM
Friends, but never close, our paths intersected and then diverged, until this past September, when I connected with Leonard for the last time.
Nov. 30 2016 12:01AM
“I bet on him as on a racehorse, certain that he would become the guardian truth-teller of my generation.” (1995)
Sept. 24 2014 12:01AM
How a central prayer of the New Year liturgy reveals the day’s true spirit of awe and fear.
Sept. 22 2014 7:20PM
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.
Norman Lebrecht
Sept. 22 2014 12:01AM