JL;DR SUMMARY Allison Kaplan Sommer, Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida, and Noah Efron cover significant topics in Israel, such as settlers peacefully evacuating a West Bank outpost as a compromise reflecting the new government's style, Reuven Rivlin's legacy after serving as the country's president for seven tumultuous years, and a controversial ruling on Hebrew grammar by the Academy for the Hebrew Language. 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'.