PEACE page 9 The gathering was organized following the assassination of Is- raeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Ra- bin. In the months since Mr. Rabin's death, a series of suicide attacks on Israeli citizens by Arab extremists have imperiled the prospects for peace and left Jews divided on the best course of action. The emotional debate has re- sulted in Jews "talking at each other rather than with each oth- er," lamented Council President Allen Zemmol. The March 21 seminar was intended to address that prob- lem. The audience first listened to a presentation by University of Michigan Professor Zack Lev- ey in which he summarized the political and military back- ground of the peace talks. Au- dience members then broke into small discussion groups to vent their own feelings on the sub- ject. Professor Levey, who was raised in Southfield but received Can You Spare A Few Minutes? Subscribe To The Jewish News. How Can You AfFord Not To? )UST A FEW MINUTES A WEEK GIVE YOU ALL THE IMPORTANT LOCAL INFORMATION. AND NEWS DELIVERED TO YOUR MAILBOX ONCE A WEEK. THE JEWISH NEWS IMO WWW UMW WWW Man WAM MMM I CZ MMW WWW MMM MMM MAW IMO WWW MMM WWW Save 37% off the newsstand price by respontirg today. Receive 52 issues of The Jewish News plus fire issues of Style magaaine fcr only $42 ($58 out-of-state). Yes, I'd Ike my own subscription to The Jewish News. ❑ Please bill me. ❑ Payment enclosed. I ❑ Charge to my ❑ MasterCard I Name ❑ Visa Card # Address Exp. Signature (required) City My Name Phone THE DE TR O City State Tip Gift Card Message My Address State Tip New subcribers only Phone r Please send all payments along with this coupon to: The Jewish News, P.O. Box 2267, Southfield, MI 48037-2267. Allow 2-3 weeks for delivery. 131) For faster service cat! 810 354 6620 and charge it to your Visa - 10 ❑ I'd Ike to send a subscription as a gift to: - or MasterCard between the hours of 8:30 an and 5:00 pm mism mmm mem mmitl mftm mmv wmm mso: AD395 -03 .31-.003w his college and military training in Israel, said he favored con- tinuing the peace talks, despite the high terrorist casualties. Diane Pomish was less opti- mistic, saying the short-term prospects for peace remained a "pipedream." "As long as people are willing to die for their cause, I don't see how we can defeat that," she said. Norma Shifrin disagreed. Terrorism, she said, has been and will remain an unfortunate reality in the Middle East and elsewhere. If negotiators delay peace talks until terrorism evap- orates, a peace agreement will never take place, she said. Ms. Shifrin added that Arabs and Jews will never live in har- mony until both populations are given the same rights and priv- ileges in Israel. "You can't have coexistence if things aren't equal and, right now, they are not equal," she said. ❑ Delivering The Message Of A Jewish Suffragette JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER xactly 150 years after age of 16, Ms. Rose's father Ernestine Rose stood before arranged her marriage to an old- the Michigan House of Rep- er man, offering her inheritance resentatives advocating as a dowry. When her protests women's rights, Marta Rosenthal about the marriage went un- reenacted Ms. Rose's appearance heard, she took the matter to a under the Capitol dome. Polish court and, in a rare de- At the opening of the March 26 session in the state House, Ms. Rosen- thal appeared in period costume as Ms. Rose. "We agreed to do this because of what Ernes- tine Rose represented," said Ms. Rosenthal, who is the incoming president of the National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Detroit Section. "She stood for human rights and women's rights at a very controversial time. She was a rebellious, well-meaning woman." In preparation for her speech, Ms. Rosenthal read two books about the 19th-century activist: Rebels and Reformers and Ernestine Rose: The Battle for Human Marta Rosenthal goes back 150 years. Rights. "Because Ernestine came cision, won. Ten years later she from an Orthodox background, met and married a man from her father wouldn't let her read England, and together the cou- Torah, so she rebelled and ple moved to the United States. taught herself. I respect her a Ms. Rose became known in great deal." New York's liberal circles, meet- Ms. Rose, who was born in a ing people like herself who be- shtetl in Poland, was the daugh- ter of an Orthodox rabbi. At the DELIVERING page 12 PHOTO BY GLENN TRIEST Jewish Life Moves In The Fast Lane.