JL;DR SUMMARY Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman, and Noah Efron delve into various significant topics this week, including Netanyahu's likely win in the Likud leadership primary, the poor performance of Israeli 15-year-olds in international tests, and a controversy over gender-segregation in schools. 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'.