• Amanda Cohen’s obsessed East Village restaurant, Dirt Candy, got two stars from the New York Times. Mazel! [NYT]
• Girls resident jerk Alex Karpovsky, who was recently cast in a Coen brothers film, gives his stamp of approval to Judd Apatow’s latest, This is 40. Is that the most Jewish sentence ever, or what? [Hollywood Reporter]
• BuzzFeed gets in the Hanukkah game with pictures of 27 (not a very Semitic numeral, but whatever) crazy menorahs. [BuzzFeed]
• The new Yale president has some serious rabbinic roots. [Yale Daily News]
• Drake’s grandmother Evelyn Sher, who the Jewish rapper frequently referenced and who is featured speaking on “Look What You’ve Done,” passed away on Thanksgiving. [MTV]
• Beyonce really loves her Stuart Weitzman shoes. [HuffPo]