It’s official: The newest American Girl doll is 9-year-old Rebecca Rubin, a Jewish-American girl who lives with her family on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1914. SAN FRANCISCO (JTA ...

Top image: detail from Girl holding doll and book; Above: Woman holding her hip, all images courtesy Harper Collins and Maira Kalman My grandmother in pearls Following on in style from the original ...

Meanwhile Stunkel’s companion, nine-year-old Kennedy Hackett of Edwardsville, kept her doll Julie safe by “just holding her, she hasn’t fallen down yet.” “American Girl dolls are fun to ...