Courtesy of the Israel Religious Action Center, Bat Mitzvah Barbie!
IRAC planned to use this in a promo, but apparently opted against it because Barbie evokes strong negative responses from some...
The recently re-posted image brings to mind a 2003 move by Saudi Arabia to denounce Barbie as a perverted reflection of Jewish/American culture, criticism of this image as religiously inaccurate and "The Tribe," the 2005 movie that examined the history of the Jewish people through the creation of the Barbie doll. (Barbie was created by a Jewish woman named Ruth...)
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