Ruth Handler, the Jewish inventor of Barbie, was watching her daughter Barbara one day. Like so many little girls across the world, Barbara was using paper dolls to play an elaborate game of pretending to be a grown up. Read more » »

Every once in a while, a perhaps-somewhat-forgotten historical legend finds a strange way to enter the zeitgeist, courtesy of the odd thing that is Twitter. That’s what happened with legendary Jewish ventriloquist Shari Lewis earlier this month, when a tweet by Christopher Fryer went viral. Read more » »