A Kosher Response To Poverty They call it a modern-day “tent of Abraham,” a group of four cost-free restaurants—three in Brooklyn and one in Queens, New York—where indigent Jews in need of kosher meals can sit at small, cloth-covered tables and be served by waiters five nights a week.
Posts Tagged ‘compassion’
Compassion Gone Wild
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged compassion, kosher, poverty on December 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pure Compassion in Action
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged compassion, health care, stanford on December 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Medical clinics offer free health care to needy “I’ve always felt health care is a human right,” said Dr. Lars Osterberg, co-medical director of the Arbor Free Clinic, a Sunday-only center run entirely by Stanford medical students and faculty. “In this country, we don’t have that right, so when I was in med school, I [...]
Evolution Plays Pronoiac Tricks?
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged compassion, kindness on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Social scientists build case for “survival of the kindest”
Humans Are Getting More and More Compassionate
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged compassion, empathy on January 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis” by Jeremy Rifkin We are a fundamentally empathic species . . . Social scientists are reexamining human history from an empathic lens and, in the process, discovering previously hidden strands of the human narrative which suggests that human evolution is measured not [...]
Pronoia Is Intensely Practical
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged compassion, forgiveness, neurology, neuroscience on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The neuroscience of compassion, love, and forgiveness
Breakthrough Emotions
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged compassion on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scientific American says “You Can Learn to Be More Compassionate”
