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Israel widens bombing amid worries about escalation

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‘They are really beginning to see the damage to their kids’: Mass. families face worsening situation in Gaza Sunday
The families from Plymouth and Medway were in Gaza when Hamas fighters rampaged into Israel on Oct. 7. They haven’t been able to leave.

How should parents and teachers talk to kids about the Israel-Hamas war? Here’s what some experts recommend.

Representative Jake Auchincloss re-emphasizes support of Israel on visit to Needham synagogue

Wheelchair repairs can drag out for months. In Mass., people with disabilities seek a solution.

Wheelchair failures can leave users in pain, out of work, and trapped at home.

Man allegedly pushes wheelchair onto Red Line tracks, causing service delays

At around 7:10 a.m., the man “intentionally” pushed the wheelchair into the pit area containing the tracks, and it came into direct contact with the electrified third rail, according to Transit Police

Lee Berk, former Berklee president and college namesake, dies at 81

Lee Eliot Berk was 81 and had moved with his wife, Susan, to Santa Fe, N.M., and then to Phoenix after stepping down as president in 2004, according to Berklee officials.

Meet the Republicans running for House speaker
More than half a dozen Republicans have announced that they will run for speaker or that they are considering doing so since Friday.

A few burning questions hover over the start of the new season for the Celtics. Here are some answers.

The Globe's Adam Himmelsbach and Gary Washburn discussed the key storylines as the Celtics get set to open up the 2023-24 season.

Nathan Knight joins Celtics on two-way contract, filling out roster ahead of season opener

Two kayakers rescued from Ipswich Bay during potentially hazardous weather

Ex-director of Boston Center for Adult Education found guilty of embezzlement, forgery

Police seek man after woman found dead in Gardner
Spotlight Report

Greater Boston has a housing crisis, but doesn't act like it

In towns like Milton, soaring home prices are a barrier to a new generation of buyers and a clear threat to future prosperity. It is a fact of life here, but it doesn’t have to be.
How will the state’s historic rezoning mandate affect your community? Graphics: Why it’s so hard to afford housing in Boston

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FOOD

How to make Sheryl Julian’s homestyle Boston Cream Pie

Bakers of many skill levels will find this classic treat easy to create.
Monday is National Boston Cream Pie Day, and Boston takes the cake

Bad Bunny hosts and performs on ‘Saturday Night Live’

"Saturday Night Live" on Oct. 21 was hosted by Bad Bunny, who was also the musical guest for the night. Watch clips from the show.

Your ultimate guide to Halloween Week in Salem: from tricks to treats

Whether it’s your first or fifth time experiencing Halloween in Salem, fear not. (Unless that’s your end goal.)
Demand to stay in Salem around Halloween leads to ‘astronomical’ fees for Airbnb and Vrbo rentals
Opinion
IDEAS | EVAN SELINGER

Don’t expect the government to save us from misinformation

What is now known about the attack debunks widely accepted arguments among Washington’s policy establishment.
EDITORIAL

Statewide zoning could boost accessory dwelling unit construction
JEFF JACOBY

Amazon is huge, but it’s no monopoly
RENÉE GRAHAM

The Patriots are lousy. I’m loving it.
LETTERS

Invest in child care with direct support to families

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LOVE LETTERS
I think I want a postnuptial agreement
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Armenian delegation presses humanitarian issues with local leaders in Cambridge
Five women leaders from Armenia pressed their concerns with Massachusetts leaders on the refugee crisis and border security issues facing Armenians.

Voicing history: Audio technology added to Boston Women’s Memorial
A collaboration between the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail and the Talking Statues Association unveiled Saturday gives voice to First Lady Abigail Adams, poet Phillis Wheatley and suffragist Lucy Stone.

Cambridge Community Foundation makes more than $1 million in grants to address food insecurity
Seven nonprofits received grant funding through the foundation's Food Access and Security Initiative, a key part of a five year plan to address the most pressing social needs in Cambridge.

Mitch McConnell says he’s ‘completely recovered’ from health issues
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said he’s fully recovered from health issues that led him to freeze in public and he prodded House GOP members to agree on a new speaker.

‘The pope’s favorite nun’ honored by Paulist Center of Boston for her work serving migrant families at Texas-Mexico border
Sister Norma Pimentel of the Missionaries of Jesus, and executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, was honored Saturday with the Isaac Hecker Award for Social Justice by the Paulist Center of Boston.

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Harvardwood offers a Cambridge-to-Hollywood pipeline. But first, you have to get into Harvard.

Harvard alums occupy every rung of the entertainment industry ladder. The Harvardwood network seeks to harness that power for Crimson students and graduates looking for a career in film and beyond.

I returned home from a carefree summer traveling to learn my mom had cancer
My mother taught me to be patient and that facing illness with humor could make things easier for everyone.

Allegations of an inappropriate text, toxic work environment directed at Boston City Hall Cabinet chief
The city of Boston paid $40,000 in severance to a former employee who had accused Brianna Millor of fostering a toxic work environment and threatened to sue for discrimination and retaliation, according to city records.

Everett set to try again to win state approval for Revolution stadium
Lawmakers are nearing a deal that would enable a long-planned soccer stadium to be built on the banks of the Mystic near Encore Casino.

Culture & Lifestyle

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Lily Gladstone eclipses all in Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

6 takeaways from McKay Coppins’s new Mitt Romney biography ‘Romney: A Reckoning’

At Amherst’s Yiddish Book Center, a new exhibition speaks volumes about Yiddish as ‘a global culture’

Special Projects

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Tuqa Nusairat

Three things Washington got wrong before the Hamas attack on Israel
MARCELA GARCÍA

Why dog breed bans are misguided and harmful
IDEAS | SUSAN HALL

Planning for my vulnerable son’s future without me
EDITORIAL

Biden was right to show solidarity with Israel. He is also right to counsel restraint in Gaza.
IDEAS | SUSIE LINFIELD

9/11, apartheid, and other metaphors that make people misunderstand Israel and Palestine
IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

If your dog could speak, would you like what it said?

Metro

Lee Berk, former Berklee president and college namesake, dies at 81

Lee Eliot Berk was 81 and had moved with his wife, Susan, to Santa Fe, N.M., and then to Phoenix after stepping down as president in 2004, according to Berklee officials.

Representative Jake Auchincloss re-emphasizes support of Israel on visit to Needham synagogue

“Israel is at war,” Auchincloss said to about 60 people who attended a town hall at Temple Beth Shalom. “For so many of us in the Jewish community, that’s not just a geopolitical earthquake, that’s a deeply personal reality.”

Cambridge Community Foundation makes more than $1 million in grants to address food insecurity

Seven nonprofits received grant funding through the foundation's Food Access and Security Initiative, a key part of a five year plan to address the most pressing social needs in Cambridge.

Colors of the season

Since mid-September, seasonal workers, mostly immigrants, have waded waist-deep in the flooded bogs of Wareham, forming large crimson-colored circular shapes so that the cranberries can be siphoned by large pumps into waiting tractor-trailer trucks.

Sports

HS FOOTBALL: PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

EMass football: With a dominant two-way performance, Wayland’s Max Dresens headlines Players of the Week

The junior posted 221 rushing yards and a touchdown, plus an interception and 5½ tackles, as the Warriors outlasted Bedford.
Live updates

After falling behind late, Mac Jones leads game-winning drive, and Patriots snap their losing streak

It was the highest point total of the season for the Patriots, who entered the game ranked 31st in the NFL in scoring at 12.0 points per game.
Patriots

‘I’ll worry about that later’: Bill Belichick downplays 300th regular-season win

A 29-25 victory over the Buffalo Bills made the Patriots coach the third coach to reach the mark in the NFL.
HS FOOTBALL: TOP 20

EMass Football: By snapping Catholic Memorial’s win streak, St. John’s Prep takes over No. 1 in Top 20
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK

Big plays on special teams tip gridiron scales for Winthrop, Methuen, others
BROWNS 39, COLTS 38

P.J. Walker, Browns rally for second straight week, this time tripping Colts in wild one

Business

Got insurance? Climate change and inflation are driving up insurance prices for homeowners and condo associations. Some policies aren’t being renewed at all.

An insurance broker’s lament: “Accounts we could place with a phone call a few years ago we can’t even get coverage for today.”

US push for release of hostages delays Israeli ground war, but won’t stop it

Israel supports diplomatic efforts to get Hamas to release hostages from Gaza quickly and in large numbers, a move that could delay and possibly alter its ground war, according to people familiar with the negotiations.

Israel says Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon toward war as towns empty

Mitch McConnell says he’s ‘completely recovered’ from health issues
magazine
Your Home | Kitchens & Baths

Deep, moody colors turn a traditional kitchen into New England modern
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘He revealed his deepest fear . . . is chickens’
Connections

I returned home from a carefree summer traveling to learn my mom had cancer
PERSPECTIVE

Can a Gen Z-er function without a smartphone? We made a co-worker find out.

metro

‘The pope’s favorite nun’ honored by Paulist Center of Boston for her work serving migrant families at Texas-Mexico border

Voicing history: Audio technology added to Boston Women’s Memorial

Rain drenches Boston spectators during Head of the Charles regatta

sports

Nathan Knight joins Celtics on two-way contract, filling out roster ahead of season opener

After leading Sunday’s game-winning drive, Mac Jones wants to continue to ‘make people believe’

QB controversy? Backup Tyson Bagent leads Bears in rout of Brian Hoyer, Raiders

business

Gen Xer mourns the death of the ultimate monument to teen culture: the mall

Company bosses and workers grapple with the fallout of speaking up about the Israel-Hamas war

Everett set to try again to win state approval for Revolution stadium

politics

Fears continue that Israel-Hamas war could widen. Follow live updates.

Meet the Republicans running for House speaker

Biden faces tough battle to secure $105 billion for Ukraine, Israel, the border, and more

Nation

5 dead and 5 injured — names on a scrap of paper show impact of Gaza war on a US family

Seeds of Cherokee knowledge grow in North Carolina

A mother in Maine rallied for her son’s emotional support chickens

World

6 killed in Russian rocket strike on mail depot as Ukraine reports record bomb attack numbers

Ukrainians prepare firewood and candles to brace for a winter of Russian strikes on the energy grid

‘They are really beginning to see the damage to their kids’: Mass. families face worsening situation in Gaza Sunday

opinion

MBTArghhhhhhh (again)!

Three things Washington got wrong before the Hamas attack on Israel

Why dog breed bans are misguided and harmful

lifestyle

Your ultimate guide to Halloween Week in Salem: from tricks to treats

I think I want a postnuptial agreement

These founders couldn’t find Boston nightlife for queer people of color — so they created their own

food & dining

Douglass Williams opens DW French in the Fenway; Snowport returns to the Seaport

At Medford’s El Tacuba, a packed bar and excellent stuffed plantains

In Back Bay, Hue wants to throw the party we all deserve

travel

10 of the spookiest places in Rhode Island with a peculiar past

I finally climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Here’s what you need to know if you hope to do it, too.

An argument for lengthier vacations

Arts

At the Museum of Printing, ‘We’re trying to save the past for the future’

At Amherst’s Yiddish Book Center, a new exhibition speaks volumes about Yiddish as ‘a global culture’

The fine art of remaking a collection

Books

Author readings around Boston Oct. 22-28

At Amherst’s Yiddish Book Center, a new exhibition speaks volumes about Yiddish as ‘a global culture’

Local bestsellers for the week ended Oct. 15

Movies

Lily Gladstone eclipses all in Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

‘Journalistic eye’ guides GlobeDocs Film Festival, now in its ninth year

How Tim Burton’s Christmas ‘Nightmare’ channeled a generation’s angst into a holiday classic

Television

Bad Bunny hosts and performs on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Two strong reasons to look forward to ‘MaryLand’ on ‘Masterpiece’

It shouldn’t matter to us if TV castmates are pals in real life, and yet . . .

music

White House bestows honor on musician, composer, and educator Bill Banfield

Rising star Danielle Ponder went to law school in Boston. But she’s given up the courtroom for the concert stage.

With ‘Garden of Eden,’ Boston’s Bad Rabbits once again have some spring in their step

Theater/Dance

Subject:Matter makes its own music at the ICA

To theaters, laughing matters

‘Frozen’ stars have warm feelings about Anna and Elsa

Health

CVS Health pulls some cough-and-cold treatments with ingredient deemed ineffective by doctors

Neil Steinberg, former CEO of Rhode Island Foundation, to chair R.I.’s new life sciences agency

R.I. life sciences agency inches closer to becoming reality

Obituaries

Lee Berk, former Berklee president and college namesake, dies at 81

Bobby Charlton, the Manchester United and England soccer great, dies at 86

Vincent Patrick, chronicler of hustlers and mobsters, dies at 88