What Religion is Your Child’s Doll? Welcome Jewish American Girl Doll

I have not much more to say about the new Jewish American Girl Historical Doll, Rebecca Rubin, that hasn’t already been said (although it is interesting to think-I didn’t realize all the other dolls weren’t Jewish) but it is notable that programming was created to connect the new doll to the Lower Eastside Tenement Museum. I visited the museum a number of years ago, and definitely felt the connection and history. I imagined my great grandfather, who came over to the US hidden in the bowels of a ship, may have stayed there before pursuing his fortunes as a junk salesman, and eventually establishing a life and family in the US.