Apple is seeking exclusions from President Donald Trump’s tariffs that went into effect Sept. 1 on the Apple Watch, iMac, parts for the iPhone and other components imported from China.
The company filed requests for exclusions from 15% duties on 11 products or components Thursday, the first day U.S. firms could seek relief from the tariffs on about $110 billion in Chinese imports. The iPhone maker had mixed results on its requests for exclusions from the previous round of duties.

Fitbit on Friday announced it will be acquired by Google in a deal that values the smartwatch maker at roughly $2.1 billion.
The deal puts Alphabet in a race against Apple when it comes to tracking fitness and health data. Fitbit’s stock had surged as much as 30% earlier this week on reports that Alphabet had put in an offer. The deal is expected to close in 2020.
Google will pay $7.35 a share for the fitness tracker, helping it advance its ambitions for wearable technology. The company does not make its own smartwatch.

Starbucks Corp.’s newest store type is so small it leaves little room for customers.
The location opening Tuesday in New York’s Penn Plaza has just 300 square feet (28 square meters) for customers — a fraction of a traditional Starbucks dining area and roughly the size of a generous living room. It lacks features like menu boards and a pastry case, and has a discreet, out-of-sight cash register. Customers who order via phone ahead of time can pick up their order when it pops up on a digital board. Walk-in orders are welcome but the space is designed to accommodate digital orders.

Rav Tzvi Hirsh Kalisher
Rav Moshe Birdogo, son of Rav Avraham. Rav Moshe resided in western Morocco and was known as the Rosh Mashbir (1730)
Rav Avraham Halevi Zions, rosh yeshivas Knesses Yisrael in New York
Rav Avraham Rice, pioneer of the Baltimore Jewish community and founder of one of the first Hebrew schools in the U.S.
Today in History – 5 Cheshvan

· Pogrom against Alexandria’s Jews and their expulsion from the city by the Christian rabble incited by Bishop Carilius, 413 CE
· Jews massacred in Beit Shean by Greeks, 333 BCE
· 200 Jews massacred in Germany, 1298
· Pope Gregory X condemns the libel of Jews for ritual murder, 1272

Hundreds of Palestinians gathered at the border of Israel and the Gaza Strip on Friday as part of the continuation of the “March of Return” demonstrations that have occurred nearly week throughout 2018 and 2019.
Prompted by Hamas, they threw rocks, Molotov cocktails and other explosive objects at the security fence and Israel Defense Forces, as well as burned tires, yelled anti-Israel slogans and waved Palestinian flags.
One Molotov cocktail hit an IDF vehicle, though no injuries resulted.
The Palestinian health ministry reported nearly 100 Palestinians as having been wounded in the mayhem.
Protests also occurred in the West Bank on Friday, with Arab adults encouraging children to collect and burn tires.
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Five people were killed and several others were injured after gunfire erupted at a Halloween party in an Airbnb rental in Orinda, California, Thursday night, according to police in the San Francisco Bay area.
The shooting began just before 11 p.m. in the posh hillside community about 17 miles east of downtown San Francisco. Officers described a chaotic scene of more than 100 frightened party-goers scattered around property, some of them nursing fresh wounds, others fleeing into the night.

If you’ve managed to hang on to your iPhone 4 or 5 for all these years: Congratulations! You’ve successfully navigated a yearslong gauntlet of cracked screens, toilet drops, theft, peer pressure and seductive advertising to cling to the vintage device.
But now you’ll have to clear yet another hurdle to keep these phones and other older Apple gadgets working properly. Fortunately, it’s a pretty simple process. You just have to do it today.

The judge overseeing the federal trial of the gunman behind the Oct. 27, 2018 shooting at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh declined at a conference pre-trial meeting on Thursday to set a date for the capital trial.
Judge Donetta Ambrose said she will only select a trial date once all of the lawyers’ motions are resolved.
She also assured not to pick a day that coincides with the Jewish High Holidays, in response to letter sent from Dor Hadash, one of three congregations holding services that Shabbat morning at the synagogue when Robert Bowers entered, and shot and killed 11 Jewish worshippers.
Bowers waived his right to appear at the pre-trial meeting.

A photo of a five-year-old girl from Sderot cowering on the floor of her home as rockets rained down on her community went viral over the weekend, signifying to many the lasting trauma that years of repeated rocket barrages have done to innocents living near the border.
Sara Dahan, a 22-year-old single mother, posted the photo of her daughter Tahel online. She said her niece had accidentally taken it as the family gathered in the home’s protected space.
“My daughter! My own personal joy! The little girl who I promised to protect froze in place and simply would not move even though she was in the shielded room,” she wrote, referring to fortified concrete rooms that are mandatory in modern Israeli homes.

The city council in Poway, Calif., will consider a proposal on Nov. 5 to change the name of a short street in memory of Lori Lynn Gilbert-Kaye, the only fatality in the shooting earlier this year at Chabad of Poway.
Under the proposal, Eva Drive would become Lori Lynn Lane. It is located near where the 60-year-old congregant lived with her husband, Dr. Howard Kaye, about a mile from the synagogue.
Poway Mayor Steve Vaus said that people associated with Chabad approached the city to propose the street-name change.
“They did all the groundwork, and our team got the obstacles out of the way,” he said. “It should have unanimous and enthusiastic support.”