JL;DR SUMMARY Allison Kaplan Sommer, Gilad Halpern, and Noah Efron discuss the Meretz party primaries potentially returning the party to its roots, the implications of the Religious Zionism party primaries for religious Zionism, and whether party primaries or autocratic selection methods yield better Knesset candidates. 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'.