I wanted to talk about what my wife has done to improve the world. Her work far exceeds mine in this area.

Aside for her being Hadassa woman of the year (local chapter) president of the Friends of the Library, Secretary of PTO at our school, treasure and fund raiser for our Contra Dance group, I want to talk about her doll project.

The local hadassah (large fund raising group of Jewish woman) in West Bloomfield Michigan has made over 35,000 dolls which are donated to all Detroit area hospitals in the past 8 years.   The dolls are used for many purposes.   Children get the dolls to keep and often decorate them.   They use the dolls to say where they hurt or for Doctors to tell the children where they will operate.

My wife brought 50 of these dolls to Hadassah hospital in Israrel this past year.   This hospital is funded by Hadassah and treats 90%of both Isrealie and arab terror victoms.   The hospital was overwhelmed with them and wanted more.   My wife has arranged for over 500 more dolls to be sent there.   In addition she has taken on the mission of starting doll projects at other Hadassah locations around the country.   Several are considering it with Boston being very close to getting started.

Will this bring peace to the middle east? NO- but it will make the lives of several of the children a little better.    Wouldn't it be cool if other cities started a doll project as well.   In the meantime, she has started a new project of Kemo caps for cancer victims- an offshoot of the doll project.   35,000 dolls in 8 years- not too shabby.