Allison Kaplan Sommer, Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.

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—Elections, Infections & Abjections—

Is the collapse of Israel’s government a good thing, in a They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Sort of way?

—Vaccination Lamentation—

Why are so many of Israel’s anti-vaxxers leftists?

New Jewess

Is Gal Gadot the “New Jewess”?

—“Urban Freedom”—

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion, we discuss a new survey of “Urban Freedom” by the separation-of-church-and-state-advocacy group Yisrael Hofshit, about which Allison wrote in Haaretz.

Kama Vardi, in celebration of her new album, Moonticket!