JL;DR SUMMARY In this podcast episode, Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron, and Don Futterman discuss the near-war situation with Gaza leading up to elections, reflect on the intense Israeli election campaigns, and ponder why pride is associated with the Right and shame with the Left in Israel. 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'.