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The Challenge of Empathy in Times of Crisis

Empathy is the engine of moral life and the power that shapes healthy politics.

July 6, 2020

July 6, 2020

Dr. Micah Goodman is a Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Micah was named by the Jerusalem Post as one of the 50 most influential Jews in 2017 and by Liberal Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Israelis in 2019. He is the author of seven best-selling books. His first three books – Moses’s Final Speech, The Dream of the Kuzari, and The Secrets of the

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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.