A Girl Scout troop skipped selling cookies to raise money for Palestinian kids — and got in trouble
Girl Scouts of the USA apologized after Muslim troop in St. Louis was threatened with legal action
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The Tapper family has more than one pundit at home. Alice Paul Tapper, the 10-years old daughter of CNN anchor Jake Tapper, just penned her first op-ed for the New York Times. Titled “I’m 10. And I Want Girls to Raise Their Hands,” the article describes the young Tapper’s efforts to get girls to speak…
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Food Girl Scout Cookies in Canada Go Kosher
JTA — Most Girl Guide cookies have been certified kosher in Canada following the efforts of an all-Orthodox troop. When the 31 Jewish girls established the 613th Thornhill Pathfinder Unit in Thornhill, Ontario, a heavily Jewish suburb north of Toronto, the first question member Sara Silverman asked was, “When do we start selling cookies?” according…
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Life Silencing Little Girls
As the Israeli national-religious population continues to lurch rightward, the belief that for an Orthodox man, the sound of a woman’s singing voice is inappropriately erotic and therefore violates Jewish law has gone increasingly mainstream. This lies behind the ongoing dispute over whether IDF soldiers have the right to walk out when women sing…
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Life The Right’s Latest Target: Girl Scouts
The Girl Scouts have long been synonymous with wholesome American girlhood, with their cookies and their uniforms and their appearance in a late ‘80s movie with Shelley Long. But recently they’ve come under attack because some affiliates have decided that young girls on the cusp of puberty might want to know the facts of life,…
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Life ‘Thin Mints, the Rabbi Said, Are His Favorite Girl Scout Cookie’
News flash: The kosher-certification symbol was inadvertently omitted from boxes for Thin Mints Girl Scout cookies, leading to at least a little bit of confusion. This morsel of news comes to my attention not via Kosher Today, but rather from this Sunday’s New York Times, which devoted a whole news article to the tasty tidbit….
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