American Girl’s New Character, Rebecca Rubin, Is Making Headlines

American Girl’s newest character Rebecca Rubin is set for her May 31st debut and the buzz is definitely building! Articles in major news outlets and more are starting to pop up and more sneak peek photos are showing up.

Here are just a few we have found:

USA Today – American Girl Dolls Up Jewish History: Kaya Meet Rebecca

Chicago Sun Times – Twins eager to get newest American Girl doll

NY Times – American Girl’s Journey to the Lower East Side

Jewish Journal – American Girl Introduces First Jewish Doll

Matzav.com – The New American Girl doll: She’s Jewish, She’s Poor, And Her Name is Rebecca

Just call me Chaviva – Finally A Jewish American Girl Doll

Vos Iz Neias – New York – American Girl To Unveil Jewish Doll With Glatt Kosher Style Dinner

Jewish Daily Forward Sisterhood Blog – American Girl to Unveil Jewish Doll

St. Louis Jewish Light Online – Students on New Rebecca Rubin Doll

Thanks to my readers for emailing me the links and photos as they find them. As the week goes on and more news outlets are writing about the new Rebecca doll, I’ll add them to the list above.

UPDATED: Here is another photo found via Lily at The Frisky (not what I would consider a kid friendly site so I am not linking to it):

What a cute outfit and the sideboard is a nice addition to her collection.

Bratz Dolls to be Discontinued – Thank Goodness

I have never been a fan of the Bratz doll line and we haven’t had them in this house since the first time my daughter received one as a gift – the baby Bratz doll was wearing thong underwear – eewww. So the recent news the Bratz manufacturer, MGA Entertainment, must stop producing the dolls because of a copyright infringement lawsuit from Mattel is music to my ears.

According to the court order, MGA must stop using the Bratz name and must stop selling the dolls as of February 2009.