Diane Cole is the author of the memoir “After Great Pain: A New Life Emerges” and writes for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.
Diane Cole
By Diane Cole
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Art Born centuries apart, these artists embody the heroic spirit of Purim
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Art How America’s most Jewish city is also its most Catholic, Protestant and Muslim
In the exhibit City of Faith, different religious groups intersect and interact in New York
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Two new exhibits in New York grapple with the ravages wrought by antisemitism
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Culture He wasn’t Jewish, so why does Thornton Wilder seem so rabbinical?
125 years after his birth, the playwright is the subject of renewed attention with a revival of 'The Skin of Our Teeth'
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Culture Timeless anthems, Hanukkah lyrics and Yiddish illustrations — Woody Guthrie contained multitudes
Just about everyone can sing a verse or two of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,” a folk ballad so popular that it can almost double as an American hymn. But did you know that Guthrie also wrote Hanukkah lyrics, sketched illustrations for Yiddish poems, drew a colorful birth announcement of his son Arlo…
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Culture Why did this astonishing document of Nazi atrocities vanish for more than 50 years?
“The Lost Film of Nuremberg,” which will premiere at New York’s Jewish Film Festival Jan. 13, uncovers a real-life history more unsettling than any saga Hollywood could manufacture. At its center of the documentary, directed by Jean-Christophe Klotz, is an enigma: How could a film made for and from the historical record become missing from…
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