‘What was the guy who wrote “Suzanne” doing in the Sinai?’: Matti Friedman talked about Leonard Cohen—and his own writing about Israel—during a visit to Montreal

Israeli-Canadian author Matti Friedman’s newest book is Who By Fire: War, Atonement, and the Resurrection of Leonard Cohen, the story of Cohen’s tour of Israel during the Yom Kippur War, Friedman was in Montreal Dec. 1 for an event at the Jewish Public Library and sat down with The CJN’s Hannah Srour-Zackon to talk about […]

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