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 ...

And as of this week, in a sense, it is one. On Wednesday, American Girl released its first twin dolls, Isabel and Nicki Hoffman, who are also the first characters from an interfaith family.

This Saturday, the Senator John Heinz History Center, in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh’s Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, will celebrate Women’s History Month with “American ...