The ”Major Pager Rager” Edition

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.

Hear the Extra-Special Special Extra Segment on Patreon

 

—Major Pager Rager—

A stunning attack-by-pager left dozens of Hezbollah militiamen dead and thousands maimed and wounded. What are we to make of a thing like that?

—Commemoration Vexation—

How do you memorialize October 7, when October 7 hasn’t ended yet?

—Testicles in the Twitterverse?—

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Hezbollah pagers explode, social media memes erupt, but not all Israelis are laughing.

All this and the music from the remarkable new record רוח באה מדרום (Wind Comes from the South).