Tefillin Barbie

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Tefillin Barbie is a creation of Jen Taylor Friedman, first produced in 2006. It is a Mattel Barbie doll wearing a tallit and tefillin. Tefillin Barbie has also been depicted as reading from a Sefer Torah, holding said Torah aloft in the performance of Hagbaha, holding a siddur, and studying a volume of Talmud.

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Tefillin Barbie has been the subject of articles in the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles , Lilith Magazine , the London Jewish Chronicle , the New Jersey Jewish News , and The Forward . [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

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  1. ↑ Michal Lando, "The First Soferet", The Jerusalem Post , October 2, 2007.
  2. ↑ "Why the Tefillin Barbie Minyan Gives Me the Creeps", Forward, accessed 6 August 2023
  3. ↑ "Tefillin Barbie: Considering Gender and Ritual Garb", Jewish Women's Archive, accessed 6 August 2023
  4. ↑ "It's a Barbie Mitzvah", The Jewish Chronicle , November 2, 2006, accessed 6 August 2023
  5. ↑ Welcome Barbie! An Interview with Tefillin Barbie’s Creator, Museum of the Jewish People, 25 June 2018, accessed 6 August 2023
  6. ↑ Way before icon Barbie got the Hollywood treatment, she was ‘born’ with Jewish roots, The Times of Israel, 6 June 2023, accessed 6 August 2023
  7. ↑ A Cultural History of Jewish Dress, Eric Silverman, A & C Black, pub. 2013, ISBN   9780857852090, p. 146–148
  8. ↑ Meet the Feminist Torah Scribe Behind Tefillin Barbie, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Zachary Solomon, 11 January 2016, accessed 6 August 2023
  9. ↑ Teffilin Barbie and Burqa Barbie: What does it mean to dress dolls?, Jewish Women's Archive, Alma Heckman, accessed 6 August 2023

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