Hanukkah Barbie Is Here, and She Actually Got the Jewish Holiday Right

Hanukkah Barbie is here, and she actually got the Jewish holiday right

Mattel released its new "Holiday Sweater Barbie" more than six decades after Jewish immigrant Ruth Handler debuted the iconic doll.

I never saw myself in Barbie. Would ‘Hanukkah Barbie’ have changed that?

I wasn’t really a Barbie kid. While I occasionally played with my sister’s hand-me-down Barbies, I preferred American Girl dolls. They were Barbie’s chunkier, cherubic counterparts, each representing a girl from a different period in history and accompanied by a series of historical-fiction books about her life. I devoured those books, including the story of Rebecca Rubin, a 9-year-old Russian-Jewish immigrant living on the Lower East Side in th…

Hanukkah Barbie Is Here — And She Actually Got the Jewish Holiday Right

There’s something pretty powerful about finally feeling seen.