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Smart content plus fan-exclusive sweepstakes and giveaways. Home News & Politics Arts & Culture Life & Religion The Scroll Longform Holidays   A Yom Kippur Ritual I Can’t Give Up Get Ready for Yom Kippur—Prepent 5774 Syria The Story of Jonah THE SCROLL A Yom Kippur Playlist for 5774 Featuring Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, and Idan Raichel By  Mishael Zion | September 12, 2013 7:32 PM | Comments:  6 Print Email Share 461   Tweet 37   4   1 Leonard Cohen.  ( Margarita Korol ) One of Jewish music’s most venerable traditions is that of borrowing love songs from popular culture and repositioning them in a religious context. Yisrael Najara took Turkish love songs from the alleys of Damascus and Gaza and set them to holy words.  Yehuda Halevi  borrowed the imagery of Saharan shepherds and used them to describe the longing of the forsaken...