The “Mourning in America” Edition

JL;DR SUMMARY In this podcast episode, Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron, and Don Futterman delve into three key subjects: the potential lasting rift between American Jews and Israel following the Pittsburgh massacre, the left's militant stance on Rabin's assassination anniversary, and the surprising election of a feminist mayor in an ultra-Orthodox Israeli town. 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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