JL;DR SUMMARY This episode of Unorthodox delves into the juxtaposition of Christmas and the Jewish fast day Asara B'Tevet, featuring interviews with writer Merrill Markoe on her graphic memoir and French Ambassador Philippe Etienne on secularism and rising anti-Semitism in France. 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'.