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LYNNE MASTER, M.Ed
Owner, Director
of the volunteers making dolls at
Shaarey Zedek's Laker Center in con-
junction with the Greater Detroit
Chapter of Hadassah's Doll Project
("Dolled Up" Nov. 28).
This project was started approxi-
mately a year ago with funding from a
generous anonymous donor and cur-
rently is being funded by a matching
grant from Blue Cross/Blue Shield of
Michigan.
We are proud to have distributed
2,592 dolls to five area hospitals as of
this date.
The dolls serve a dual function; first
to act as a medical teaching tool for use
by medical staff to communicate proce-
dures to the patients and second, to
allow children to draw on the doll,
show where they hurt, "insert" needles
and IV lines and to comfort small
patients.
Over 200 Hadassah volunteers have
worked on this project as well as com-
munity groups ranging from Girl
Scouts to senior residents from Prentis
and Teitel apartments. It is truly won-
derful to see so many people contribut-
ing their time and energy to the com-
munity.
Bloomfield Hills
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Council Steps
Were Aggressive
The authors of the two letters you pub-
lished in the Dec. 4 Jewish News
("Public Outcry All Too Rare" and
"Guidelines Were Ignored"), criticized
the Jewish Community Council and its
executive director David Gad-Harf
regarding the Channel 56 controversy.
They must have
missed your Aug. 29
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issue, which con-
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tained an article
outlining the
aggressive steps
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taken by the
Council to confront
`-'4Y d y • t.
the television station's
decision to air "The People and the
Land." Due to Council's efforts,
Channel 56 received an unprecedented
outpouring of mail, phone calls and
other communications protesting the
station's decisions.
The Council was approached about
•
joining the boycott of Channel 56
many weeks after the events occurred.
Our board of 54 community represen-
tatives thoroughly debated the efficacy
of joining such an effort so long after
the eyent .giving rise to the proposed
boycott occurred.
Without opposition, the board deter-
mined that Council should not join this
effort because people who were familiars
with the issue already made their deci-
sions to continue or withhold their
financial support of Channel 56. By the
time Council was approached and the
coalition supporting the boycott took
its action, Channel 56 had clearly heard
the voices of the Jewish community and
had begun taking the steps necessary to
ensure an incident like this would not
happen again.
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By acting swiftly and effectively,
Council served the best interests of this
Jewish community and began the
process of changing the way Channel
56 does business. Joining this boycott
would not have added anything to what
Council had already accomplished.
Howard I. Wallach
President, Jewish Community Council!
All Letters
Fit To Print?
Is The Jewish News obligated to print all
letters from malcontents?
Why would you print letters negative
to people like David Hermelin and
David Gad-Harf and organizations like 1- 0.
the ADL? These are people who work
for the betterment of the Jewish people
on a daily basis.
As the recipient of one of these let-
ters a few months ago from a jealous
and uninformed person, I am heartbro-
ken that these two, wonderful people
have to be subjected to this and that
The Jewish News compounds it by
putting it in print.
It is scurrilous. Shame on you.
Leonard H. Trunsky
West Bloomfield
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