Short Takes

Jewish-Arab Harmony

05/14/2013 | Sandee Brawarsky | Book Critic

David Margalit, 11, gave the slightest of nods, and he and Nasif Francis, also 11, began playing a Mozart Sonata. Margalit and Francis, on piano and violin, made subtle music together, enchanting listeners in a house concert last week on the Upper East Side.

A Nosh And A Walk

05/14/2013 | Jonathan Mark | Associate Editor

It may have been the folksiest diplomatic rendezvous since the Roosevelts had the King of England over for hot dogs in the Hyde Park backyard.

Heather Robinson's 'Table For One'

05/13/2013 | Heather Robinson | Special Jewish Week Correspondent

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10. Sex

10 Reasons A Married Woman Longs For Singlehood

05/13/2013 | Julia Gorin | Special To The Jewish Week

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10. Sex

Roll Over Reb Nachman

05/07/2013 | Ted Merwin | Special To The Jewish Week

Music, the chasidic master Reb Nachman of Bratslav believed, brought Jews closer to God. Now comes “Bratslav-Beethoven-Bratslav,” a free one-hour recital in which Reb Nachman’s folktales are set to music by the great German Romantic composer.

Talking Baseball

05/07/2013 | Jonathan Mark | Associate Editor

Like Yiddishkeit, baseball is never what it used to be, and what used to be is often different than remembered. Legend tells us that fans were most loyal and passionate in Brooklyn.

Did anyone love Jackie Robinson more, or Sandy Koufax even more? And yet, despite Brooklyn finishing first or second nine times, with four World Series appearances and a championship in the years after Robinson’s debut (1947), Brooklyn attendance plunged some 780,000 in the next decade. Meanwhile, Koufax, of course, the beloved Brooklyn Jew who was a well-known athlete in the borough, was the starting pitcher 13 times in Brooklyn home games, but the average attendance was a very modest 16,289, with several of his starts attracting anemic turnouts in the range of 6,000-7,000.