Click Here to Read: What “Orange Is the New Black” Gets Right about the Prison System – and What It Leaves Out By Jesse Lava on the Truthout website on August 10, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  Suicide Rates Are High Among the Elderly By Paula Span in The New York Times on August 7, 2013.

Greacian Goeke and her father, Joseph Goeke, at their New Jersey home in an undated family photo.

Click Here to Read:  An Unexpected Family Reunion, Seven Decades After the Holocaust My husband’s grandmother’s family was decimated by the Nazis. But at 95, she discovered relatives she never knew. By Jennifer Mendelsohn on The Tablet website on August 8, 2013.

Bessie and Rachel. (Courtesy of the author)

Click Here to Read: This day in Jewish history / Eastern European Jewish culture gets a life preserver. A conference kicked off on this day that established the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research – which still plays an important role in documenting Jewish life and culture By David B. Green in Ha’artetz on August 8, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  Confessions of an Application Reader By Ruth Starkman in The New York Times on August 1, 2013.

Brian Cronin for The New York Times.

Click Here to Read: YIVO entry in the YIVO Encylopedia of Eastern European Jews by Cecile Kuznitz on the YIVO Encylopedia of Eastern European Jews website.

The dais and part of the audience at the first YIVO Conference, Vilna, 1929. Among the scholars and communal leaders on the stage are (seated, center) Tsemaḥ Szabad, (second to Szabad’s right) Max Weinreich, (second to Szabad’s left) Perets Hirshbeyn, (standing, third from right) Zelig Kalmanovitsh, and (seated, second from right) Eliyahu Tsherikover. (YIVO)

Click Here to Read:  Study: Mental illness, not combat, causes soldier suicides By Jen Christensen on the CNN website on August 6, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  At Home in This Village: Yiddish Speakers by Sam Roberts in The New York Times on August 6, 2013.

Click Here to Read: 5 tips for recovering from emotional pain By Guy Winch on CNN website on August 2, 2013.

When you brood over something, you’re simply replaying the same thoughts without gaining new insights.

Click Here to Read:  Seeing Narcissists Everywhere By Douglas Quenqua in The New York Times on August 5, 2013.

Jean M. Twenge finds fault with the culture of self-esteem in the United States, in which parents praise every child as “special.”