Barbra Streisand and Leonard Cohen: Timeless, but not ageless

By Danielle Berrin
Published on November 16, 2012

Nov. 3-9

By Ryan Torok
Published on November 1, 2012

The legendary entertainer and eight-time Grammy winner brings Broadway to the Bowl for two nights, concluding a tour of the United States and Canada in support of her new album, “Release Me,” a collection of previously unreleased songs. Streisand performs crowd-pleasing hits that span her entire career, including “The Way We Were,” an homage to the late Marvin Hamlisch, and sings duets with son Jason Gould, half-sister Roslyn Kind and more. Pop-jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and Italian operatic trio ll Volo also appear. Fri. 8 p.m. Nov 11. 7:30 p.m. $70.50-$756.50. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood. (323) 850-2000. hollywoodbowl.com.

A troubadour’s journey

By Jonathan Kirsch
Published on September 19, 2012

Among the most-played songs in my iTunes library are four immortal (and often-covered) compositions by Leonard Cohen: “Sisters of Mercy,” “Bird on a Wire,” “Hallelujah” and, of course, “Suzanne.” Significantly, “Hallejujah” is a meditation on the “sweet singer of Israel,” King David, although Cohen himself is, famously, a Buddhist monk and, not so famously, a former student of Scientology with a “Senior Dianetic, Grade IV Release” to show for it.

From Salman Rushdie to Susan Straight, a fall harvest

By Jonathan Kirsch
Published on September 10, 2012

Fall is high season for the publishing industry. Jewish Book Month, which arrives in November, may have a little something to do with it, and so does the stirring of activity that always follows Labor Day.

Calendar Picks and Clicks: Apr. 7-13, 2012

By Ryan Torok
Published on April 4, 2012

Actor-comedian Jeff Garlin (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”), who played studio executive Mort Meyers on “Arrested Development,” welcomes series creator and executive producer Mitch Hurwitz to the “Jeff Garlin in Conversation With …” series at the Largo. With a new season of “Arrested Development” slated to air on Netflix in 2013, followed by a feature film, you can bet questions will fly about the Bluth dysfunctional family reunion.

Anti-Israel activists urge Leonard Cohen to nix T.A. show

By JewishJournal.com
Published on May 11, 2009

Leonard Cohen Back on the Road, Still Looking for God

By Danielle Berrin
Published on March 4, 2009

MUSIC VIDEO: Leonard Cohen—‘Who by fire?’

By The Web Guy
Published on September 28, 2008

Leonard Cohen in a live performance of his song 'Who by fire?' based on the High Holy Days U'Netaneh Tokef prayer

Crooners celebrate Canuckia’s Cohen and a first for our very own Greenberg

By Keren Engelberg
Published on February 22, 2007

Picks and Clicks

Leonard Cohen Film Toasts Songwriter

By Steven Rosen
Published on January 19, 2006

Cohen became first an accomplished poet and then, starting with 1967's "Songs of Leonard Cohen" (which contained the oft-recorded "Suzanne") a singer-songwriter. According to Ira Nader's Cohen biography, "Various Positions," Cohen's Judaism has influenced his songs greatly -- "Who By Fire" is based on the melody of a Yom Kippur prayer, "Mi Bamayim, Mi Ba Esh," and "If It Be Your Will" is derived from a "Kol Nidre" phrase.