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JL;DR SUMMARY US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, a pro-Israel evangelical, recently visited Slabodka's roshei yeshivah, Rav Dov Landau and Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, in Bnei Brak. 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'.

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Bnei BrakTrumpMike HuckabeeEvangelicalsRoshei YeshivahIran WarDirshuDraft Controversy

Places mentioned

Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"When an American ambassador comes to town  especially a densely populated, politically savvy town like Bnei Brak  everybody knows about it."
Yerushalayim, Jerusalem, Israel
"Like an echo of historic encounters such as the 1927 meeting of Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld and the Czech president in Yerushalayim, this visit was significant."
Givat Rokach, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Last Wednesday, much to the intrigue of a crowd of bystanders, the motorcade of US Ambassador Mike Huckabee swept into Givat Rokach, the gentle knoll on which Yeshivas Slabodka sits."
Arkansas, United States
"Adding to the unusual optics of the event was the presence of Dirshu founder Rav Dovid Hofstedter, a longtime friend of the former Arkansas governor, and the one who had facilitated the encounter."

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