JL;DR SUMMARY In a recent podcast episode, Noah Efron, Don Futterman, and Miriam Herschlag from Times of Israel discussed several important topics: the implications of an Al Jazeera video showing IDF soldiers searching a West Bank Palestinian home, the revelation of Prime Minister Netanyahu's close ties with the owner of Yisrael Ha-Yom newspaper, and the recent efforts by courts and the Knesset to crack down on the sex industry - questioning whether this is progress for feminism or an overstep into puritanism. 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'.