The “I Have Been Able to Form a Government” Edition

JL;DR SUMMARY In a podcast episode, Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman, and Noah Efron cover significant topics in Israel, including the formation of an unusual government coalition involving diverse parties, the election of Yitzhak Herzog as Israel's eleventh President, and the growing disillusionment of young Jewish-American progressives with 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'.

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