Blog: Oh, Sweet Nothing

So in keeping with the theme of my last post, I thought I'd continue posting about American musicians who spent significant time in Israel. This week's entry: Leonard Cohen. Not to shock any readers, but Leonard Cohen is Jewish (although now he's also a Buddhist as I understand it). Indeed, Cohen attended the Herzliyah High School in Montreal . I mention this as a prelude to Cohen's trip to Israel in October, 1973. Cohen, apparently coming off of a bad break-up, decided to clear his mind by coming to Israel as it was beginning what it thought [...]