"A British schoolteacher has been arrested in Sudan accused of insulting Islam's Prophet, after she allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad."
Pondering how a similar incident would have been treated by Jews, my own local schoolteacher informed me that she had been employed in the past by a Jewish family and that one of the children in that household had a "Torah stuffed toy". This puzzled me and so I harnessed my electronical steed and set out on an informational crusade.
I discovered that there is a huge variety of Jewish toys and other strange paraphernalia. These range from board games such as "Matzah Ball Bingo", "Let's Go Schlepping", and "Quick Shtick".
to the adorable "Fishel the Frog" Passover doll, and the ever popular "Juggling Matzah Balls".
I even found the aforementioned Torah toy, in several variations – here's just one:
I'm not entirely sure what (if anything) this actually says about Jews, but one thing I did find disturbing - the fact that in the same collection of Jewish stuffed toys, games, and books I also found the following Mahjong game:
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