Q. Can one give as a present to a child a simple doll toy, or is it a shailah of an idol?
I heard that, one has to cut a small piece of it. Is that correct?

A. P’ri Hasodeh (3: 38) is lenient since it is obvious that the doll toys are not utensils of Avodah Zarah or idolatry at all. Similar opinions are mentioned by Emek Shailah (57: 3), Meishiv Dovor (2: 11), Hochmas Odom 85; 60 and others.

However, in some Chassidick traditions they are stringent.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.