There’s nothing like the hopeful promise of a shiny, new diary, is there? Whatever next year brings, we can all benefit from the organisational joy of a diary to help us plan our lives: the weddings, ...

From hospital stays to Shabbat dinners, a few lines a day became a Jewish way of reckoning with memory, loss — and the comfort of routine. In January 2011, I wrote my first entry in a five-year diary.

"The Diary," a new play written by Claude Solnik and directed by Deborah Rupy starring Charles E. Gerber as Otto and Eva Gozé as Anne Frank , debuts at Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave., for a ...