JL;DR SUMMARY Allison Kaplan Sommer, Miriam Herschlag, and Noah Efron discuss Israel's Education Minister's decision not to award the country's top prize to a computer theorist who supported boycotting an Israeli university, the debate over whether all government functions need to be in Jerusalem if it's considered Israel's capital, and the projection that by 2050, a quarter of Israelis will be ultra-Orthodox and its significance. 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'.