• Happy New Year from the Jewish cabal. [Tablet]
• An Orthodox Jew comes clean about celebrating the Russian New Year. [Haaretz]
• There’s a new Israeli restaurant in Krakow’s Jewish Quarter, and it’s called Hamsa Hummus and Happiness. [JTA]
• ‘Jewish Jordan’ Tamir Goodman’s line of sports-friendly, UV protectant tzitzit ihave found a new customer: IDF soldiers. [Cleveland Jewish News]
• Famed immigration hub Ellis Island is still closed from damage sustained during Hurricane Sandy. [Forward]
• Persian Drake stopped by Bravo reality show Shahs of Sunset: