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We hear … and by hear, I mean read in Page Six … that the mystery baby-daddy of former model, Salman Rushdie ex, and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi is may be Adam Dell, the younger brother of Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell. Dell, who was raised Jewish in Houston, is reportedly going to ...

Today in Tablet Magazine, Bridget Kevane, who yesterday profiled late Argentinian dissident Jacobo Timerman, talks to his son, Héctor—now Argentina’s ambassador to the United States. Tu B’ Shevat begins at sundown. If you want to know more about this tree-hugging holiday, check out our FAQ. Want to make an appropriate Tu B’Shevat meal? Take your ...

Growing up in Atlanta, Eli Kirshtein was more interested in pork than in pomegranate, figs, and other staples of Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish celebration of nature and trees. In fact, Kirshtein, who appeared on the recent season of the Bravo reality show Top Chef—he finished fifth—had little idea that Tu B’Shevat existed until Tablet Magazine ...

• Recent Top Chef contestant Eli Kirshtein will soon start as “guest chef” at Solo, a kosher steakhouse in Manhattan. [Eater NY]
• Several Moldovans, led by an Orthodox Christian priest, toppled a menorah in the capital city of Chisinau and replaced it with a cross. (Video included.) [Arutz Sheva]
• A Knesset bill would ban foreigners ...

Joan Nathan’s New York Times article today on Gentile chefs who cook Hanukkah food in deference to their Jewish spouses mentions Craft’s (and Top Chef’s) Tom Colicchio, cookbook author Sara Moulton, and Washington, D.C., chef Todd Gray. However, it leaves out Bill Telepan, whose eponymous restaurant is on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and whose wife, ...

• Rabbi Jonathan B. Freirich of the Roma Rights Network has joined Hindu groups in requesting a disclaimer on James Cameron’s upcoming 3D sci-fi flick Avatar, as the title is also “a Sanskrit term meaning descent or incarnation,” and “the central theme in Hinduism.” [All Headline News]
• British Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks is more concerned ...

Ilan Hall, the Long Island-born Jewish chef who won season two of Bravo’s Top Chef, a serving bacon-wrapped matzo balls at his just-opened Los Angeles restaurant, The Gorbals. That’s really about all there is to say on the matter, though the Los Angeles Jewish Journal has another 1,000 words on it—plus a video!—if you’re desperate ...

Tablet Magazine doesn’t often focus on Heidi Klum—she hasn’t renamed herself Miriam to join the celeb Kabbalah crew or made her position known on the prompt shuttering of Brighton Beach Memoirs. But a blogger at the Forward has overcome that problem, observing today that in Klum’s role as Project Runway host, she relishes announcing the ...

Season Six of Bravo’s cooking-competition show Top Chef, which premiered last night, has the potential to be the Jew-heaviest season yet (although in this regard it faces stiff competition from last season, which was won by one Hosea Rosenberg). Based on the name game alone, we count, to varying degrees of certainty (we’re pretty sure ...