Allison Kaplan Sommer, Sally Abed 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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—Still Crazy, After All These Tears—

A cease fire has taken affect, dust has settled, dead have been buried, and rubble has begun to be cleared. But what, if anything, has changed?

—Who’s Afraid of Fifth Elections?—

So maybe 5th elections are a good idea!

—Dissenting Court or Courting Dissent?—

Did the Supreme Court just save Israeli democracy (or destroy it)?

—You Okay?—

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion, we check in with one another and ask how we are doing, personally, as the violence recedes, as the corona virus seems to be forgotten, and the movie theaters are reopening.

All that and the grunge garage band rock of The Grasshoppers (Ha-Hargolim)!