Micah Goodman
Dr. Micah Goodman is a Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is a leading voice on Judaism, Zionism, the Bible, and the challenges and opportunities facing Israel and contemporary world Jewry. Micah is the author of several Israeli bestsellers on canonical Jewish texts: Moses’s Final Speech, The Dream of the Kuzari, and The Secrets of the Guide for the Perplexed, all published in Hebrew by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan
The Challenge of Empathy in Times of Crisis: Four Jewish Philosophical Reflections
Empathy is the engine of moral life and the power that shapes healthy politics. But our empathy is under attack – from the right and the left, by both religious and secular forces. In this lecture, Micah Goodman presents the four current major threats to our empathy, and will explore how we grapple with this reality through the accumulated wisdom of Jewish tradition.
NOTE: This lecture was part of our Hartman Summer 2020 month-long celebration of Jewish ideas, All Together Now.
