JL;DR SUMMARY In a recent article on Tablet Magazine, topics discussed include an interview with Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni on politics and Israeli-Diaspora relations, a writer's experience of his mother becoming a stereotypical Jewish mother after he wrote a book about their family moving, a profile of choreographer Liz Lerman and her socially aware dance creations, and Liel Leibovitz's reflection on the Noah's Ark story in his Torah column, focusing on the choice of saving the cutest animal. 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'.