JL;DR SUMMARY Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron, and Ittay Flescher discuss the battle for control of Israel's Labor Party between various factions, the impact of new hi-tech checkpoints on Palestinian laborers entering Israel, and the controversy surrounding Israel's first openly gay minister being jeered at the Gay Pride parade for his poor LGBTQ record and support of the Occupation. 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'.