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Complete Party Planning .0 • Bat Mitzvahs • Bar Mitzvahs • Weddings • Anniversaries Call Parties Galore: 855-8801 32 FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1989 THE JEWS OF NORTHERN IRELAND: Living in Peace BY MARK UHERMAN In a Troubled Land BELFAST—Strolling to shut on a fine fall morning, 1 almost forget that this is a land in anguish. Half an hour outside the barricaded center of the city. !ascend the flank of fog-shrouded, eternally-green Cave Hill. Along the Antrim Road. the neighborhood begins to resem- ble an upper middle-cl.s enclave anywhere in America. But as I turn into the tree- li ned street where the Belfast Hebrew Congregation is located, 1 am reminded just where I am and just what sort of place this.is. A five-man British Army patrol in camouflage battle dress — laser-sighted rifles at the ready — stands blocking the sidewalk. - Morning. sir," says a burly corporal. "Where are you corning from:- There is a maxim in Belfast., - Whatever you say. say nothing. - With this in mind. I reply briefly, explaining that l am coming from my hotel. "Where are you bound for?" I tell him — the synagogue. I offer my pre. card. After a cursory glance, he hands it back. Mark Lieberman has cocrred etwlts Norther,: Ireland gnu. 1985. No anti-Semitism in Ireland? DYNAMIC WEARMASTER SOLAR SASH Signs of unrest: a wall separating Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods: a pro- British street mural. Call GROSSMAN GALLERIES 851-6637 N N Ms. Writer's Prayer Is End Of Mechitzah ARTHUR J. MAGIDA Special to The Jewish News W hen shown the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Ann F. Lewis, a national affairs cor- respondent for Ms. magazine, was told by her guide, "Many people write their wishes and stick them in the Wall." "If I write a wish," Lewis responded, "it would be that the mehitzah [the partition that separates men and women at prayer] fall down." Lewis saw the Wall while in Jerusalem late last November . and early while hile attending the First International Jewish Feminist Conference. Writing in Ms., Lewis tells of women from the conference reading the Torah at the Wall, while a man shouted over the mehitzah, "I forbid it. I forbid it." And as "an anguished woman circled the group [of feminists] crying, "The Torah is not for women." The 300 women from 21 countries at the conference "felt the dangerous presence of religious fundamentalism — an enemy to women's lives around the world, whether dressed in the robes of the ayatollah or the caftan of an ultra-Orthodox rabbi." Regardless of their theology or their geopolitics, wrote Lewis, two common threads link religious fundamen- talists: the "exact and detail- ed knowledge of what God wants, usually derived from literal reading of a sacred text; and second, their deter- mination to control — and restrict — women's lives. Star- ting with their own women, and I do mean they think they own women." Noting the Middle East's "warring theologies and fac- tional disputes," Lewis wrote, "What a shame these religious leaders [of the region] can't agree on ter- ritorial boundaries as naturally as they draw the lines around women's lives" In a companion piece about the conference, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founder of Ms., recalled that she had wondered who would attend the four-day meeting: "Cer- tainly, no woman active on Jewish life anywhere on earth needed another con- ference." Pogrebin discovered that the women had come for the same reason she had: "To find others who identify for- thrightly both as Jews and as women within the context of our countries and cultures .. . And who understand that .. . bigotry and oppression come