JL;DR SUMMARY Micah Lasher, a Jewish Assembly member, is advocating for a bill in New York that would create 25-foot buffer zones around synagogues to counteract protests that have intimidated worshipers, such as a recent violent pro-Palestinian demonstration at the Park East Synagogue. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.