Click Here to Read: Loneliness is a major health risk for older adults on the Medical Xpress website on February 16, 2014.
Click Here to Order: Encounters with Loneliness: Only the Lonely from IPBooks.
University of Chicago psychologist John Cacioppo will speak at a seminar on “The Science of Resilient Aging” at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Credit: Robert Kozloff/University of Chicago
HANNAH, SAME BOTH WAYS by Hannah Rose
Indepenpress Publishing Ltd (April 29, 2013), Reviewed by Naomi Miller
This is a book written, or rather dictated, by a young women who, at the age of fifteen, was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, an inflammation of the spinal chord that left her paralyzed from the neck down. This followed experiencing severe pains in her shoulders and back just as she was preparing to go on a school trip to France. Continue reading Hannah, Same Both Ways
Click Here to Read: Freud and the Marranos: How Yosef H. Yerushalmi Gave Voice to Jews Caught Between Worlds Two new books explore the complex legacy and rich life of the great Jewish historian of conversos and Marranos By David N. Myers on The Tablet website on February 10, 2014.
Original photo American Sephardi Federation via Center for Jewish History/Flickr)
Click Here to Read: Did the French Become Holocaust Deniers by Talking Too Much? A new book in France aims to set the record straight about national awareness of the horrors of the Shoah
By Tadzio Koelb on The Tablest website on February 7, 2014.
Joseph Darnand, head of the pro-Nazi police and commander of the Vichy French Milice, is buried in the cemetery of Thiais.(AFP/Getty Images)
