Tefillin Barbie
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Tefillin Barbie is a creation of Jen Taylor Friedman. It is a Mattel Barbie doll wearing a tallit and tefillin. She has also been depicted as reading from a Sefer Torah, holding said Torah aloft in the performance of Hagbah, holding a siddur and studying a volume of Talmud.
Tefillin Barbie has been featured on Jew School, Jewlicious, BoingBoing, in the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, on Ritualwell, Lilith Magazine (upcoming issue), New Voices, the London Jewish Chronicle, The Jewish Advocate, the Philadelphia Jewish Voice, and the New Jersey Jewish News.
[edit] External links
- http://www.geniza.net/bar/barbie.shtml
- http://jewschool.com/?p=11332
- http://www.newvoices.org/cgi-bin/articlepage.cgi?id=682
- http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/this_weeks_issue/columnists/fasman/?content_id=2177
- http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=2789
- http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/22/orthodox_jewish_pray.html