JL;DR SUMMARY The text discusses an email exchange between cousins Chloe and Sara, with Sara revealing she has written a book, "Kissing Girls on Shabbat," detailing her journey from growing up in a strict Hasidic family in Brooklyn to leaving Orthodox Judaism and embracing her identity as a gay woman. 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'.