Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and and returning prodigal son, Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Listen to the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —“A Mandate” Anagrams to “A Tad Mean”— Israel’s Corona Czar says the time has come to consider a “vaccine mandate.” Is this why the word “omicron” anagrams to “moronic”? —Whose Violence is it, Anyway?— Why do folks on the left and the right see such very different things when they look at violence on the roads and in the fields of the West Bank? —Et Tu, Walden? (Or, Autarky Malarkey!)— Would we all be better off if more of us lived off the grid, Henry David Thoreau style? —Reacting to the Latest Scandal-de-Jour— For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion, we discuss the scandal-de-jour, in which former director of the Mossad, and a presumptive heir to Benjamin Netanyahu, Yossi Cohen, is found to have braggadociously shared state secrets with his flight-attendant consort and her cuckold (and kinda pissed) husband. We’ll try to sortout what to make of this sordid affair. All this and songs by Solomon Ibn Gvirol, to celebrate his 1,000th birthday! (Because, you only turn 1,000 once!)

The “Autarky Malarkey!” Edition