JLife with Daniel

By Daniel Levine

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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 :)

Episode Date
Hillel CEO Adam Lehman on the Future of Jewish Life on Campus
Jul 17, 2025
Hillel Fuld: Australia Ban, Piers Morgan Showdown, Neturei Karta & More
Jul 15, 2025
Antisemitic Bots in the Comment Section
Jul 10, 2025
Law, Revolution, and the Messiah w/ Zevi Slavin
Jul 07, 2025
Is Iran’s Nuclear Program Really Destroyed? w/ Alon Burstein
Jul 03, 2025
Campus Antisemitism Explained | With Andrew Pessin
Jul 01, 2025
Is Powerlessness a Jewish Virtue? w/ Andres Spokoiny
Jun 27, 2025
How Dangerous is Right-Wing Anti-Zionism: A Debate with Kimo Gandall
Jun 25, 2025
Do Famous Jews Have To Speak Out Against Antisemitism?
Jun 12, 2025
More Thoughts on the Morality of Israel's War in Gaza
Jun 06, 2025
Kosher Controversies w/ Prof. Jordan Rosenblum
Jun 01, 2025
Is Israel Committing Genocide? A Debate w/ Shaiel Ben-Ephraim
May 29, 2025
The Roots of Left-wing Antisemitism
May 27, 2025
The Jewish Museum Shooting
May 22, 2025
Israel, Orange County and Judaism – Rabbi Steinberg Opines
May 22, 2025
Dalia Ziada on Islam, Zionism, and Activism in the Arab World
May 19, 2025
Can Academic Jewish Studies Be Reconciled with Traditional Judaism? w/ JJ Kimche
May 14, 2025
Religious Anti-Zionism Explained w/ Shaul Magid
May 12, 2025
The Theory Behind Jewish Law w/ Prof. Chaim Saiman
May 04, 2025
unErasing Women in Orthodox Judaism w/ Prof. Naomi Seidman
Apr 30, 2025
When Jews are Called Nazis w/ R' Ari Jun-Ballaban
Apr 23, 2025
Jews and Ethnic Studies w/ David Bocarsly
Apr 18, 2025
Is True Allyship Possible? A Debate with Adam Fox
Apr 07, 2025
Melissa Weiss: Executive Editor of the Jewish Insider
Apr 03, 2025
Rabbi Stephen Einstein
Apr 02, 2025
The Experiential V Remembering Self w/ Jonah Sanderson
Mar 29, 2025
False Messiahs in Judaism w/ David Graizbord
Mar 20, 2025
The Episode That Never Happened
Mar 18, 2025
Deporting Anti-Israel Activists? A Debate with Luke Rodriguez
Mar 11, 2025
Social Media, Liberalism, Free Speech and the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict w/ Prof. Vikki Katz
Mar 06, 2025
Musings on Maimonides, Medicine, and Modern Antisemitism
Feb 27, 2025
How to Save Judaism in America
Feb 25, 2025
Trump's Gaza Plan W/ Alon Burstein
Feb 08, 2025
Free Speech, Immigration, Trump’s Policies, and the Jews: A Legal Perspective with Julie Marzouk
Feb 05, 2025
Is Drinking a Jewish Value?
Feb 03, 2025
Is DEI Worth Saving? A Debate with April Powers
Jan 27, 2025
Therapy in the Orthodox Community
Jan 23, 2025
Mayor of an Israeli Settlement: Oded Revivi
Jan 15, 2025
Whistleblowing in the Israeli Government and IDF w/ Daphne Inbar
Jan 13, 2025
Shai Davidai on Campus, Antisemitism, Advocacy, and his Jewish Identity
Jan 09, 2025
Herbert Levine AKA My Dad
Jan 05, 2025
Marc Dollinger on Zionism, Jewish Whiteness, DEI and more
Dec 30, 2024
How Christmas Created Hanukkah in America
Dec 25, 2024
Can Math Help Prove God?
Dec 24, 2024
Was Jesus a Palestinian?
Dec 19, 2024
Palestinian Activist Samer Sinijlawi on Building a Palestinian State
Dec 10, 2024
Transgenderism, Sex, Antisemitism, and other Cancelable Topics
Dec 06, 2024
Kurdish-Jewish Relations
Nov 26, 2024
Dr. Yehudah Pryce
Nov 24, 2024
Mayim Bialik
Nov 13, 2024
Europe Against the Jews
Nov 10, 2024
Trump, The Election, and the Jews
Nov 08, 2024
Congressional Candidate Scott Baugh (CA 47) on Abortion, Israel, Education, and More
Nov 01, 2024
Jew Hatred at the Bookstore w/ Alan Rifkin
Oct 28, 2024
We Are All Banished from Eden
Oct 23, 2024
Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?
Oct 14, 2024
Iran, Israel, Hezbollah, and the Future of Lebanon
Oct 13, 2024
Former US Congressman and Presidential Candidate Joe Walsh on Trump, Harris, and Israel
Oct 08, 2024
Hillel Fuld Argues the Jewish Case for Trump
Oct 01, 2024
Jewish Jokes in Serious Times
Sep 27, 2024
A Female Persian Rabbi and her Advocacy for Iranian Female Equality
Sep 12, 2024
The Most Interesting Hebrew Professor in the Country
Sep 10, 2024
Frontline Reporting on Antisemitism: A Deep Dive with Zach Kessel
Sep 04, 2024
The Conservative UCI Humanities Professor Running for Congress (David Pan CA46)
Aug 25, 2024
The Jewish Food Episode W/ Boaz Avraham-Katz
Aug 21, 2024
Everything You Need to Know about the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
Aug 20, 2024
Irvine Mayoral Candidate Tammy Kim on Antisemitism, Israel, and Progressive Politics
Aug 14, 2024
Race, Whiteness, and the Jews w/ Prof. David Bernstein
Aug 09, 2024
The Inquisition and the Impossibility of Defining Jewishness w/ Prof. David Graizbord
Aug 01, 2024
Reflections on American Jewish Life, Antisemitism, and the 2024 Election
Jul 30, 2024
When Politics Become Holy (Zionism 4- Religious Zionism)
Jul 22, 2024
Should Jews Get Armed and Other Questions of Self Defense
Jul 16, 2024
Big Picture Israel Update w/ Alon Burstein
Jul 10, 2024
Revisionist Zionism and the Modern Israeli Right (Episode 3 - Zionism)
Jul 03, 2024
Congressional Candidate for CA 47: Scott Baugh (R)
Jun 30, 2024
God is Feminine? And Masculine? The Zohar with Professor Daniel Matt
Jun 09, 2024
My UCI Class and Campus Antisemitism
Jun 07, 2024
A State for the Jews or a Jewish State? (Episode 2 - Cultural Zionism))
Jun 04, 2024
What is Zionism? (Episode 1 - Political Zionism)
May 24, 2024
The Campus Protests
May 01, 2024
Iran, Israel, and Military Game Theory w/ Prof. Andrea Molle
Apr 16, 2024
Jewish Neoplatonism w/ Professor Sarah Pessin
Apr 01, 2024
Feminism, Exile, and Antisemitism in the Book of Esther w/ Channah Damatov
Mar 21, 2024
Jeffery Kopstein: Sleep-in Protest at UC Irvine and the Current Moment for Jews
Mar 20, 2024
The Deep Secrets of Purim
Mar 15, 2024
Israel, Campus Climate, and the Future of the University w/ Jeffrey Blutinger
Feb 28, 2024
Hassidism, Christianity, Diaspora, Zionism, and American Judaism w/ Shaul Magid
Feb 09, 2024
The Many Streams of Liberal Judaism w/ Jeremy Weisblatt
Feb 01, 2024
Jewish Philosophical Mysticism w/ Zevi Slavin
Jan 18, 2024
Krav Maga and the Making of Modern Israel w/ Professor Andrea Molle
Jan 04, 2024
Thoughts from a Jerusalem Hotel Room
Jan 01, 2024
The Hanukkah Story Your Rabbi Never Told You
Dec 12, 2023
The Antisemitic Roots of Anti-Zionism
Nov 21, 2023
Rising from the Ashes: Mysticism and Chassidism
Nov 16, 2023
Israel, Gaza, and Disinformation
Nov 03, 2023
Israel, Gaza, and the Ethics of War
Oct 18, 2023
Israel 10/07/2023
Oct 10, 2023
Rashi's Daughters and Medieval Jewish Women
Sep 28, 2023
Between Small Town and National Judaism
Sep 08, 2023
Liberal Zionism and Liberal Judaism
Aug 28, 2023
Fighting for Women's Rights in Israel
Jul 31, 2023
Israel in Crisis
Jul 26, 2023
Holocaust Distortion on Wikipedia: A Conversation with Professor Shira Klein
Jun 22, 2023
Israel at 75
May 01, 2023
Everything You Need to Know about Israel's Proposed Judicial Reform
Feb 28, 2023
California Jewish Political Advocacy
Feb 02, 2023
The Paradox of Finding Meaning
Jan 05, 2023
An Interview with Ehud Olmert
Nov 24, 2022
Who is Ben Gvir and Why Does He Matter?
Nov 16, 2022
The How, Why, and When of Antisemitism
Oct 31, 2022
From Prison to Judaism w/ Yehudah Pryce
Sep 29, 2022
What Should the Jews Be Thinking About? w/ Rabbi Nico Socolovsky
Sep 15, 2022
Addiction, Recovery, and the Jewish Community
Aug 28, 2022
Jewish-Christian Relations
Aug 17, 2022
The World of the Rabbis
Jul 29, 2022
The Recent Supreme Court Cases
Jul 01, 2022
Judaism, Pride Month, and the Trans Community
Jun 14, 2022
What's Been Happening in Israel?
May 30, 2022
Judaism and Abortion
May 12, 2022
The Past, Present, and Future of Reform Judaism
Mar 30, 2022
Israel and the Double Standard
Mar 01, 2022
Jewish Dating, Social Media, and the Future of Jewish Technology
Feb 14, 2022
Chabad and What it Can Teach Us
Feb 02, 2022
Colleyville, Antisemitism, and Where we go From Here
Jan 18, 2022
Zionism, Terrorism, and Israel's Future
Jan 11, 2022
Intro to the Podcast
Jan 04, 2022