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May 21, 2013
9:53 am

Tumblr founder David Karp participates in the Bloomberg Leadership Summit 2012 seminar in New York. In a deal announced Monday, May 20, 2013, Yahoo is buying New York-based Tumblr, the online blogging forum, for $1.1 billion. About $275 million will go to Karp, 26, who dropped out of high school to concentrate on computer programming and started Tumblr six years ago. (photo credit: AP Photo/Charles Sykes/Invision for Advertising Week)

Should we let wunderkinds like David Karp drop out of high school?

The Tumblr founder, a Bronx Science dropout, hopes to go back and learn something completely different one day

By Beth J. Harpaz

May 21, 2013
9:51 am

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and Tumblr Chief Executive David Karp speak during a news conference Monday, May 20, 2013, in New York. Yahoo edged up 31 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $26.83 after the Internet company said it was buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion. (photo credit: AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Yahoo looks to regain its cool with Tumblr deal

If CEO Marissa Mayer wasn’t running the firm, David Karp said he probably wouldn’t have agreed to sell his blogging forum, not even for $1.1 billion

By Michael Liedtke

May 21, 2013
8:42 am

Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr

Acquisition of Tumblr, where the cool kids hang out, is CEO Marissa Mayer’s boldest move since leaving Google 10 months ago

May 21, 2013
8:38 am

A woman carries a child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Sue Ogrocki)

Officials lower Oklahoma tornado death toll to 24

Previous reports said over 50 people killed; half-mile wide twister tears schools apart as it rips through Oklahoma City suburbs

By Tim Talley

May 21, 2013
8:25 am

Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman of California (photo credit: CC BY cliff1066™, Flickr)

US lawmakers blast critics of visa waivers for Israelis

Pro-Palestinian groups campaign against granting Israelis unfettered access to the US, citing ‘discriminatory’ security procedures at Ben Gurion Airport

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 21, 2013
8:23 am

Jewish tombstone fragments discovered in Polish town near Treblinka

Pieces may be embedded in a concrete wall built at the Jewish cemetery in Sokolow

May 21, 2013
8:13 am

Iran-Argentina AMIA attack joint probe is official

‘Truth commission’ made operational upon Ahmadinejad’s signature Monday

May 21, 2013
8:02 am

ZOA regains tax-exempt status

Last year the IRS rescinded the status because the group had not filed a tax return for three consecutive years

May 21, 2013
5:57 am

Wagner’s family to give correspondence to state archives

Composer’s great-granddaughter to give Bavarian State Archives letters that show his connections to Nazis

May 21, 2013
12:33 am

Palestinian-Americans run up the Palestinian flag at Paterson, NJ City Hall on May 20, 2013. (photo credit: image capture from YouTube video uploaded by westbank04)

New Jersey city honors Palestinian-Americans

Paterson, NJ — also known as Little Ramallah — raises Palestinian flag over city hall in honor of Palestinian-American Day

May 20, 2013
10:54 pm

Ex-Jewish Dems chief tapped for anti-Semitism post

Ira Forman led Obama’s reelection campaign in the Jewish community

May 20, 2013
10:03 pm

A swastika spray-painted on a window of Temple Beth Israel in Hackensack, New Jersey in December, 2011 (ADL/JTA)

US study shows global increase in anti-Semitism, Shoah denial

Religious freedom report from State Department cites concern about leaders of Venezuela, Iran, and Egypt condoning anti-Semitism, verging on ‘desecration and violence’

May 20, 2013
9:41 pm

Singer Barbra Streisand kicks off her concerts at the Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on Thursday Oct. 11, 2012 (photo credit: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Streisand to be granted honorary PhD from Hebrew U.

Star to perform for first time in Israel next month, attend Peres Presidential Conference

May 20, 2013
6:24 pm

The College Saint-Michel hosted an event organized by the Palestinian Return Centre (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Ben2, Wikimedia Commons)

Hamas-affiliated group hosts hundreds in Brussels

Appeal by European Jewish Parliament fails to prevent meet by Palestinian Return Centre, a British NGO that denies being a ‘front’ for Hamas

May 20, 2013
3:13 pm

Jewish settlers visiting the Temple Mount during the Passover holiday, March 27 (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

New video explores Jewish right to the Temple Mount

Featuring historian Sir Martin Gilbert, the short film is a reaction to modern Muslim attempts to minimize the Jewish connection to Jerusalem

By Miriam Shaviv

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