The “Challenging Assumptions” Edition

JL;DR SUMMARY In this text, Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron, and Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida discuss various important topics including U.S. Ambassador Martin Indyk's suggestion for America to give up on Middle East peace, the influence of class struggle on Israeli voting patterns, and the debate on religion's role in politics. 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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