Chef Alex Resnik is heading home to Queens to open a kosher restaurant. Photograph: Facebook. Here’s everything you need to know about restaurant openings and closings, chefs on the move and tasty events happening in the world of Jewish food. Los Angeles-based kosher-cuisine wizard and Top Chef survivor [Alex Reznik][2] is returning to his hometown…
When you’re tweeting selfies of yourself wearing nothing but a black lacy bra, and you’re a some kind of a celebrity, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise when Playboy offers you a job. Well, that’s exactly what happened to Amanda Bynes. @amandabynes Seriously, Amanda – we want you to co-host our afternoon show…
Anyone looking for a roommate? Amanda Bynes has reportedly been evicted from her New York apartment following her arrest on May 23 for smoking pot in the lobby of her building. A source told In Touch magazine that the actress “was notified that she is no longer welcome as a tenant in the building in…
This probably will not end well for both parties. Amanda Bynes is lashing out on Twitter in objection to the InTouch cover story about her “drug-fueled house party.” Bynes is angry and is threatening to sue. In the latest edition, released yesterday, the gossip journal alleges Bynes had an impromptu party in her New York…
Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit By Joseph Epstein Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 256 pages, $25 The only book I would rather review than a treatise on gossip is a history of pornography: Both promise all the thrill of the source material with only half the need to smuggle the book inside a magazine on the subway. Or…
For people who keep track of these things — and naturally, The Shmooze is far too refined for such behavior — today is the second straight day that private photos of a major Jewish celebrity have been released by hackers. Yesterday’s victim was Scarlett Johansson; today’s is Mila Kunis. Both appear to be victims of…
If the latest rumors about Prince Harry are true, Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli’s dad is going to have to learn to keep his temper in check. What do the 57-year-old Rafi Refaeli and the 26-year-old who is third in line to the British throne have to do with one another? More than you might think….
I read with great interest Jordana Horn’s Sisterhood post about the public fascination with high-profile downfalls. That’s partly because I approach scandal from the opposite direction. I don’t think it’s helpful to quash talk about a topic that clearly interests people. I think it’s more helpful to ask why we — the public and the…
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