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 ...

I try to tug it over her head, but the waistline gets stuck ... I press. As the doll begins to belt out the girl-power anthem “Let It Go,” children—girls and boys—come running from all ...

This gives them control over some scenarios that could otherwise be scary — for example, taking their doll to the doctor to re-enact getting a shot — and allows them to proces ...