What is the appeal about dolls that fascinates and attracts girls from the ages of one to one hundred and one? There are those delicate porcelain creations, too fragile for anything other than display. Other dolls beg to be hugged and dragged along wherever you go. Some are beautiful and some are, well, just plain homely. My mother-in-law has several hundred scattered throughout her home, and they are all her close friends.

I was sitting at the Passover Seder table this year, along wit