For all the young women who grew up with Felicity Merriman, Molly Macintire and Kirsten Larson 

Rebecca Rubin, first JEWISH American Girl Doll

– On June 1, meet 1914 Lower East Sider “Rebecca Rubin” — the Jewish American Girl doll for the next generation of young women. Good stuff! This development is long overdue, but at least it’s happening. Molly, Felicity and Kirsten (disclaimer: those were the three I owned) were certainly fun dolls and had interesting historical-fictional stories, but they also all had Christmas trees and Easter bunnies.  

I bet lot’s of Jewish girls will be asking their parents for a Rebecca doll this Chanukah.