JL;DR SUMMARY Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron, and Don Futterman discuss the high turnover rate among new Knesset representatives in Israel, new regulations limiting payments to pop stars for Independence Day events, and the changing dynamics of the Annual Bible Contest, where religious Israelis now dominate. 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'.