The “Who Killed Hanukkah?” Edition

JL;DR SUMMARY In this episode, Noah Efron, Don Futterman, and Allison Kaplan Sommer discuss three main topics: the controversy over an Israeli musician covering his eyes with duct tape to avoid seeing women dancing and whether this should be condemned, the struggle of Israel's Left to convey their patriotism effectively to fellow citizens, and the diminishing importance of Hanukkah as a Zionist and political holiday in Israel. 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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