For Police, a Playbook for Conflicts Involving Mental Illness

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Click Here to Read: For Police, a Playbook for Conflicts Involving Mental Illness: In response to high-profile shootings of people with mental illness, police departments around the country are turning to crisis intervention training By Erica Goode in The New York Times on April 25, 2016.

Officers from Portland’s Behavioral Health Unit with an individual they interact with on a regular basis who was later taken to the hospital. Credit. Amanda Lucier for The New York Times

Yiddish may be a TURKISH dialect

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Click Here to Read: Yiddish may be a TURKISH dialect: DNA study suggests it was invented by Jews as they traded on the Silk Road By Sarah Griffiths in the Daily Mail on April 29, 2016.

Researchers say the DNA of Yiddish speakers may have originated from four ancient villages in north-eastern Turkey. This stock image shows a Yiddish man in Jerusalem.
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