Turning Point?
American Jewry grapples: Can there be a proper balance between protecting congregants and creating a welcoming place of worship?
By Samantha Schmidt, Deanna Paul and Tara Bahrampour

For the Jewish community, the debate surrounding synagogue security is not new, but Saturday's massacre could usher in a new era of ramped-up measures

Where Serenity Remained Intact
Orthodox Jews had their phones silenced, computers off during the Sabbath --- then they learned of the massacre
By Kayla Epstein & Alex Horton

"It is unbearable to watch observant Jews come online and absorb the news."

Divine Intervention
In Pittsburgh, a Holocaust survivor was four minutes late to synagogue, escaping death a second time
By Isaac Stanley-Becker

Twice now, Judah Samet has almost paid with his life for being Jewish

Reality Check
How the Pittsburgh shooting compares to attacks on Jews in Europe, where anti-Semitism has been growing
By James McAuley

The attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue drew immediate comparisons to the situation in Europe. But how similar is it?

Personal
How I stopped abusing my husband
By Andrea J. Lee

The police arrived at our apartment, ready to accuse my husband of beating me. But I was the one causing the disturbance

Wealth Strategies
7 Crash-Proof ETFs to Battle a Bear Market
By Kyle Woodley

Wall Street has started slipping into bear market fears thanks to a brutal, volatile October that has sapped away the year-to-date gains from the major indices. But investors starting to flee have the wrong idea. There are places to hide --- including a handful of exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Heads-Up ( --- Quite Literally)
We're not prepared for the coming dementia crisis
By Ann Norwich, D.N.P., C.R.N.P.

Our aging population is not being served optimally. This must stop, asserts the director of an Adult Gerontology Nursing Practitioner Program and an assistant professor of nursing who witnesses this up-close as a practicing nurse practitioner in the palliative care field

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Joe Yonan

Crispy, convenient taquitos (Slurpee not included)

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On this day in . . .

• 1675, Leibniz makes the first use of the long s as a symbol of the integral in calculus

• 1777, John Hancock resigns his position as president of the Continental Congress, due to a prolonged illness, on this day in 1777. Hancock was the first member of the Continental Congress to sign the Declaration of Independence and is perhaps best known for his bold signature on the ground-breaking document

• 1863, 16 countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross. ALSO: During the American Civil War, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee

• 1886, the first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated

• 1901, Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution

• 1921, the Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football

• 1923, Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire

• 1929, the New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday," ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression

• 1956, the Suez Crisis begins when Israeli forces push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal

• 1957, Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset

• 1964, a collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City

• 1969, the first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet

• 1979, on the 50th anniversary of the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protesters tried but failed to shut down the New York Stock Exchange

• 1991, the American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid

• 1994, Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton)

• 1998, ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission. ALSO: Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, roared back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he'd blazed for America's astronauts 36 years earlier

• 2004, the Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election. ALSO: In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.

• 2008, Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5

• 2012, the storm that began as Hurricane Sandy, which had hit several Caribbean countries, made landfall in New Jersey -- after being reclassified as a still-powerful post-tropical cyclone -- and continued on a destructive path in the Northeast. (Differing death tolls were reported in subsequent days. Eventually, the National Hurricane Center reported 72 deaths in the United States, 54 in Haiti, 11 in Cuba, three in the Dominican Republic, two in the Bahamas, two at sea and one each in Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Canada.)

• 2013, Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner, whose agency oversaw the "Obamacare" enrollment website, apologized to Congress for the severe technical problems that marred the online rollout of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul

• 2015, China announced it was ending its nearly 40-year one-child policy, allowing couples to have two children without facing punishment

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• GOOD RIDDANCE? Singer Sinead O'Connor converts to Islam, changes name

• Discovered: A rare Revolutionary War-era newspaper in a Goodwill

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David J. Lynch: Trump is presiding over an economic boom, with just days remaining before congressional elections

Norman J. Ornstein: What happens if national elections are disrupted?

Ramesh Ponnuru: Why moderate Republicans vote with the president more often than some of his biggest fans in Congress

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