Meet the real-life sister act behind the two new '90s Jewish American Girl dolls
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March 10, 2023
Jackie Hajdenberg
Isabel and Nicki Hoffman are the two newest American Girl dolls in the historical collection.
(JTA) - As children in upstate New York, twin sisters Julia DeVillers and Jennifer Roy went to Hebrew school three days a week, spent their summers at a JCC summer camp and got to know local Holocaust survivors through their father, who survived the Nazis as a child in Poland. They also celebrated Christmas with their mother's family.
Aware of their dual religious and cultural backgrounds from a young age, DeVillers and Roy personally sent their public elementary school principal a letter asking to place a menorah next to the school Christmas tree. The girls gathered a couple of the other J...
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