JL;DR SUMMARY In this discussion, Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman, and Noah Efron explore several topics, including assessing their deeds over the past year in the spirit of Rosh Hashanah, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meeting secretly, reflections on Afghanistan and its relevance to Israel, and questioning the cancellation of this year's High Holidays due to COVID, with a reference to an essay critiquing American rabbis for being overly cautious. 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'.