JL;DR SUMMARY In the Jewish year 5777, notable moments included Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, the UN criticizing Israeli settlements with the US abstaining, President Trump taking office with his Jewish advisors Ivanka and Jared, over 100 bomb threats to JCCs in the US and Canada, Trump's visit to Israel with a stop at the Western Wall, Israel freezing plans for a pluralistic Western Wall section, a controversy at the Chicago Dyke March over Jewish symbols, neo-Nazis rallying in Charlottesville, and Hurricane Harvey affecting the Jewish community in Houston. 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'.