JL;DR SUMMARY Professor Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, a legal scholar and director of the Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women at Bar Ilan University, warns that women's rights in Israel are at risk under the far-right government led by Benjamin Netanyahu and ultra-religious parties. 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'.