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Steven Rosen

Steven Rosen

Leonard Cohen Film Toasts Songwriter

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.

‘Protocols’ Exposes Ugly Legacy of Lies

Not long after Sept. 11, an Egyptian cab driver in New York told filmmaker Marc Levin, whose documentary \”Protocols of Zion\” is being released Friday in Los Angeles, the act of terrorism was caused by Jews rather than by Muslim fundamentalists.

No Jews had died in the attack, the cabbie said. They all had been warned in advance to stay away, part of the Jewish plan for world domination as spelled out in the \”The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.\”

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