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The London Rabbi in the Haunted House

While we were busy managing our sugar highs and reveling in the joy that is Challah-ween, Jewish folks across the pond might have been dealing with a real life haunted house. In 2009, Rabbi Yitzchok Sufrin claimed that since he’d started spending weekends in the apartment above Enfield and Winchmore Hill Synagogue in Middlesex, where […]

By Chanel Dubofsky

Leonard Cohen + Dad of New Canadian PM = BFF

Canadian Liberal incumbent Justin Trudeau has more than just politics and snowboarding in his blood: he also has family ties to the melancholy king of cool, Leonard Cohen. His father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of Canada’s most beloved prime ministers, didn’t let his state duties interfere with a little rooftop poetry reading. Cohen recalls in […]

When Bob Dylan Went Hasidic at a Chabad Telethon

Bob Dylan is a well-known iconoclast, from his combative tone with reporters (see this clip from the 1967 Dylan documentary Don’t Look Back) to his born-again Christian phase in the late 1970s and early 80s, when the Jewish-born Robert Zimmerman sermonized his often hostile audiences. So it’s a bit puzzling to see this video surface […]