Diane M. Bolz

Washington, D.C., United States

Arts Editor at Moment Magazine

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Visual Moment | New Angles on a Sacred Land

Nov 25, 2024 | momentmag.com | Diane M. Bolz

It all began when two friends were chatting over a drink in the lobby of a Paris hotel. It was the fall of 2018, and American photographer Ralph Gibson and investment manager Martin Cohen, who share an interest in music and photography, were in the city to attend an international photo fair. Cohen, who is a longtime member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and has made numerous trips to Israel, asked Gibson if he had ever been there.
CNN's Dana Bash Speaks About Her Personal Experience with Antisemitism

Nov 22, 2024 | momentmag.com | Diane M. Bolz

Calling it “Unmistakable, raw antisemitism,” CNN’s chief political correspondent Dana Bash spoke Sunday night of the harassment she has faced online and in person in the wake of her reporting on the Middle East since October 7. Bash spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, during Moment’s 2024 benefit and awards dinner where she received the Robert S.
Visual Moment | The Little Boat that Could: Resistance and Rescue in Denmark

Sep 30, 2024 | momentmag.com | Diane M. Bolz

Afternoon sunlight reflects on the boat’s hull. The red and white flag behind its small wooden cabin flutters in a light breeze. From any vantage, it’s an undistinguished vessel—an ordinary workboat—but its history is anything but ordinary. It is, in fact, remarkable. In 1943, the boat was one of numerous small crafts that participated in Denmark’s exceptional and heroic rescue of its Jewish population during the Holocaust.
The Impressionist Moment

Sep 20, 2024 | momentmag.com | Diane M. Bolz

“Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment” has now come to Washington, DC. The exhibition, which celebrates the 150th anniversary of the seminal exhibit in Paris that gave birth to Impressionism, opened at the National Gallery of Art last week and will be on display there through January 19, 2025.
Camille Pissarro and the exhibition of impressionism

Jul 25, 2024 | momentmag.com | Diane M. Bolz

A lot is going on in France this summer. Normandy marked the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in June. Paris is hosting the summer Olympics and is also celebrating the 150th anniversary of the exhibition that gave birth to Impressionism. In honor of that artistic milestone, the Musée d’Orsay mounted an ambitious exhibition, “Paris 1874—Inventing impressionism,” which was on display through July 14. But fear not, you’ll soon have an opportunity to see the exhibition on this side of the pond.
Talk of the Table | The Versatile, Vengeful, Volatile Onion

Apr 16, 2024 | momentmag.com | Diane M. Bolz

I come from a family of onion lovers. My father was particularly partial to eating them raw, preferably between two slices of bread, any variety of onion would do. My mother, on the other hand, favored sweet Vidalias, as do I, but my sister usually opts for the red variety. My maternal grandmother loved cooked onions—sautéed, caramelized or fried.
Visual Moment | Depicting Devastation

Apr 11, 2024 | momentmag.com | Diane M. Bolz

Walking into the room in New York’s Jewish Museum where Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassky’s darkly vivid and intense drawings, “The 7 October 2023 Series,” were on display, one felt a visceral sense of assault. The immediacy, the urgency of the images was palpable. They seemed to leap from the walls, confronting the viewer with the trauma they embody.
Teaching the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Through Film

Feb 12, 2024 | momentmag.com | Diane M. Bolz

For the last ten years, literary and film critic Meital Orr has been teaching a course she developed titled “Re-examining the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Literature and Film” at Georgetown University. A professor at the university’s Center for Jewish Civilization, Orr has a doctorate in modern Jewish literature and a Master’s of Philosophy in Hebrew literature.
Seven Films That Will Humanize the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Jan 16, 2024 | momentmag.com | Diane M. Bolz

The devastating October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel and the ensuing war, along with the contradictory and perplexing media accounts of the clash, underscore the necessity for a nuanced understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One way is through film, says literary and film critic Meital Orr, who teaches a class at Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization that looks at the Middle East conflict through the lens of both Israeli and Palestinian literature and cinema.
Visual Moment | A Sephardi Silversmith’s Masterwork

Sep 19, 2023 | momentmag.com | Diane M. Bolz

A remarkable and rare pair of elaborate silver Torah finials have been jointly acquired by New York’s Jewish Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston. The finials, which are from 1729, are the work of Abraham Lopes de Oliveyra, the earliest known Jewish silversmith to work in England. Praised as masterpieces of historical Judaica and noted for their exquisite design, the finials, rimmonim in Hebrew, are designed to sit on top of the two wooden staves of a Torah scroll.