The “Put a Sock in It!” Edition

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'.

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