JL;DR SUMMARY Liza Rodrig, an Israeli designer and knitting enthusiast, is attending the Vogue Knitting Live conference in New York to showcase a shawl she created in response to the anti-Israel sentiment in the knitting community following the October 7th attack by Hamas on southern 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'.