‘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 […]
Popular Leonard Cohen Contemporary Art Exhibition Returns Virtually
The exhibition features tributes from over 40 artists and shows the importance of Judaism in Cohen’s work.
‘The Flame’ blurs lines between the sacred and secular
Rabbi Glazer dissects the poetry in Leonard Cohen’s The Flame.
Six Chords in the park behind Leonard Cohen’s mother’s house
Norman Ravvin reviews Leonard Cohen’s posthumously published The Flame: Poems and Selections from Notebooks, edited by Robert Faggen and Alexandra Pleshoyano.
Leonard Cohen exhibit to go on international tour
The mega-exhibition on Leonard Cohen, which drew a record 315,000 visitors to the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, is going on tour starting next year.
Côte St-Luc names Leonard Cohen Lane
Leonard Cohen Lane is the new name of the pathway that runs from Marc Chagall Avenue – another artist – through a green space to the Bernard Lang Civic Centre parking lot. “We are honouring Leonard Cohen because of the influence he had through his words and music,” said Mayor Mitchell Brownstein. “Arts and culture are important to Côte St-Lucers and adding his name to the landscape here is another way to recognize that fact.”
Baumel Joseph: The wine that fills the cup of silence
Music helped me where no sermon or consoling words had.
Your Daily Spiel For July 24
Seth Rogen will be joining Canada’s Walk of Fame; a 100-kilogram block fell off the Western Wall; a heckler shouted “Free Palestine” at Tiger Woods.
Why was Assassin’s Creed given rights to a Leonard Cohen song and not the Montreal Symphony Orchestra?
The sole trustee of the Leonard Cohen Family Trust discusses why the estate gave permission to a violent video game to use the song You Want it Darker, but denied the Montreal Symphony Orchestra’s request to perform it.
Tel Aviv stages Leonard Cohen exhibit
On Feb. 16, Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, inaugurated a special video art display in Leonard Cohen’s memory.
