Several weeks ago in his column, Mr. Reel railed about what he perceived to be a lack of empathy for the deaths caused by the flooding in Kerr County, Texas. His comments included: You must be logged ...

Michael Berk, senior rabbi emeritus of Congregation Beth Israel in San Diego, will deliver the 38th annual Rabbi Norman F. Feldheym Memorial Lecture 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, at Congregation Emanu ...

Thinking about other people's emotions vs. actually feeling them Reviewed by Rachel Goldman, PhD, FTOS We generally think of empathy as the capacity to imagine ourselves in another person's shoes.

For years, empathy has been the soft skill many leaders paid lip service to but struggled to operationalize. Customer experience executives put it in presentations. HR leaders championed it in ...

We live in the Age of Empathy. It’s become a kind of secular religion, invoked as the cure for everything from personal conflict to political division. Empathy is perceived as an unqualified good.