Don't Suppress Your Empathy

Today’s technology, in many ways, connects us more than ever before. We can go online to hear news from the other side of the world, we can read emails on the bus, and we are rarely ever unreachable by phone. But although this ease of communication is undeniable, the connection is not always meaningful. In Don’t Suppress Your Empathy, Bela Newman reminds us that humanity, not technology, is our most important connection to each other and to the universe.

Drawing on religious texts, Jewish tr...