{"podcast":{"title":"The Fifth Question","slug":"the-fifth-question-5671543","podcast_index_feed_id":5671543,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/b0c8ebe0/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daniel-levine7","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/29559576/29559576-1761598016046-b7942ac4d17d8.jpg","author":"Daniel Levine","episode_count":188,"summary":"My name is Daniel Levine and I am a Rabbi and Jewish History Lecturer at UC Irvine! I have conversations about the most pressing issues facing the Jewish community with professors, Rabbis, and politicians with a wide range of views. Hope you enjoy :)","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T08:19:53.757033+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fifth-question-5671543"},"episode":{"title":"Can Israel Overcome its Political Crisis? w/ Tomer Persico","slug":"can-israel-overcome-its-political-crisis-w-tomer-persico","published_at":"2026-07-08T18:09:09+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fifth-question-5671543/can-israel-overcome-its-political-crisis-w-tomer-persico","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fifth-question-5671543","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daniel-levine7/episodes/Can-Israel-Overcome-its-Political-Crisis--w-Tomer-Persico-e3lqv6g","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/b0c8ebe0/podcast/play/122567312/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-8%2F427600027-44100-2-280633ce2aa62.mp3","summary":"Is Israel facing its greatest internal crisis? Can liberal Zionism survive the pressures of both anti-Israel extremism and growing religious fundamentalism? And what does the Jewish idea that humanity is created in the image of God have to do with democracy, human rights, secularism, and the future of the liberal order?In this wide-ranging conversation, Rabbi Daniel Levine sits down with renowned Israeli scholar, public intellectual, and author Tomer Persico to discuss the future of Israel, the challenge of Haredi integration, Jewish mysticism, the roots of Western liberalism, and the crisis facing democracies around the world.Persico also discusses his acclaimed book, In God's Image: How Western Civilization Was Shaped by a Revolutionary Idea, which traces how the biblical concept that human beings are created in the image of God transformed Western ideas of equality, freedom, dignity, and individual rights.📖 Get Tomer Persico's book: https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Image-Wes... In God's Image: How Western Civilization Was Shaped by a Revolutionary IdeaTopics include:The crisis of liberal ZionismIsrael after October 7Haredi society and the future of the Israeli social contractReligious fundamentalism and democracyThe origins of human rights and individual dignityJudaism, Christianity, and Western civilizationSlavery, freedom, and the image of GodJewish mysticism, Kabbalah, Hasidism, and MaimonidesWhy liberalism is struggling in the 21st centuryIdentity politics, populism, and the search for meaning #israel #zionisme #judaism #jewishhistory #TomerPersico #liberalism #JewishMysticism #kabbalah #humanrights #democracy #middleeast #politicalphilosophy #jewishthought #religion #podcast #hartman Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 00:43 The difficult position of liberal Zionists toda…","meta_description":"Is Israel facing its greatest internal crisis? Can liberal Zionism survive the pressures of both anti-Israel extremism and growing religious fundamentalis…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2815,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-fifth-question-5671543/episodes/can-israel-overcome-its-political-crisis-w-tomer-persico/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fifth-question-5671543/can-israel-overcome-its-political-crisis-w-tomer-persico.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}