Table for Five: Vayigash
Why Are We Jews And Not Josephians?
After nearly two years of the pandemic, doctors like me need a break.
What motivated a practicing Muslim to become a world-renowned expert on the Jews of Morocco and help launch the new Moroccan Jewish Studies center at UCLA?
“I wanted to express by metaphor and use the public park to illustrate that people can enjoy life in a park, while yards away the atrocity of the Holocaust was occurring, as is depicted in museum artifacts.”
Cohen’s dynamic life – as well as the struggles the musician faced – are what intrigued illustrator Philippe Girard and convinced him to put out a new graphic novel about Cohen called, “Leonard Cohen: On a Wire.”