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Here's a rare opportunity for Detroit to see an
extraordinary collection of treasured possessions that
immigrants brought from their homelands!
BECOMING AMERICAN "WOMEN:
Clothing and the Jewish
Immigrant Experience
1880-1920
This unique exhibition was created in Chicago and
has been seen in only a few cities. This showing in Detroit
is the last of the tour, so don't miss it! There is also a
special section - a collection of photographs of those
who came to Detroit to find a better life:
The Jewish Immigrant
Experience in Michigan
NOW/ OPEN FOR A LIMITED TIME!
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Detroit Historical Museum
5401 Woodward at Kirby
Detroit
For hours and information, call
(313) 833-1805
Anna Steinberg Prentis. circa 1914.
Gun Control
Loosened?
Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's in-
terior minister has decided to
seek a loosening of the country's
gun control laws.
Under a proposal issued by
Minister Eli Suissa, the mini-
mum age for requesting a gun li-
cense would be lowered to 20
from 21.
Israeli civilians who had
served in combat units would au-
tomatically be granted licenses.
Mr. Suissa's proposals would
ease restrictions that had been
imposed after the assassination
last year of Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin.
The proposal prompted criti-
cism from a former Israel De-
fense Force chief of staff and a
former police commissioner.
`There is already enough vio-
lence in Israeli society," said for-
mer IDF Chief Dan Shomron,
who added that no good would
come from "flooding the country
with more weapons."
Ya'acov Turner, the former na-
tional police chief, said that more
lenient regulations would put
more weapons in the hands of
criminals.
Dubi Gazit, who headed the
ministerial committee that draft-
ed the new proposals, cited Is-
raeli security concerns as the
basis for the change in regula-
tions.
According to official figures
last released in 1993, some
300,000 Israeli Jews are licensed
to bear weapons.
Court Acquits
Neo-Nazi Leader
Budapest (JTA) — The Hungar-
ian Supreme Court has acquit-
ted a Hungarian neo-Nazi leader
who was charged with inciting
racial hatred.
In reading the verdict, the
judge said Albert Szabo and four
co-defendants had not broken
any of the laws under which they
had been charged.
The court upheld a March nil-
ing from a lower court. That rul-
ing had prompted the state
prosecutor to announce that he
would appeal the case to the
Supreme Court.
Mr. Szabo's trial began in No-
vember, after he and his follow-
ers were charged with wearing
Nazi uniforms and with display-
ing Nazi flags and other symbols
at public demonstrations.
His acquittal in March led the
Hungarian Parliament to enact
a new, tougher law regarding
hate speech and incitement to-
ward racial hatred.
Legal observers said Mr. Sz-
abo might be tried under the new
law after he made public pro-
nouncements against Hungary's
Jews last month.
Mr. Szabo fled Hungary in
1956 when the country was un-
der Communist rule.
When he returned here some
five years ago, he founded the
World National Popular Rule
Party, which was patterned af-
ter the wartime Arrow Cross
Party of Ferenc Szalasi.
Hungary had a prewar Jew-
ish population of nearly 1 million.
About 90 percent of the Jews
fell victim to the Holocaust un-
der the Szalasi regime.
Mr. Szalasi, a Hitler collabo-
rator, was executed after World
War II as a war criminal.
Jordan, Israel
Open Consulates
Jerusalem (JTA) — In an effort
to promote tourism and facilitate
trade, the Hashemite kingdom
and the Jewish state plan to open
consulates in the Red Sea towns
of Eilat, Israel, and Aqaba, Jor-
dan, respectively.
The decision was made by
joint committees formed under
the 1994 peace treaty between
the two nations.
A spokesman for the Israeli
Embassy in Amman said addi-
tional measures were being con-
sidered, including free, one-day
visas for tourists.
Meanwhile, Israeli President
Ezer Weizman plans to travel to
Amman to meet with King Hus-
sein.
The visit was to have taken
place weeks ago, but it was post-
poned at the request of Weizman,
who at the time thought that the
talks between Israel and the
Palestinians were on the verge
of a conclusion.
Israel Names
Egypt Envoy
Jerusazlem (JTA) — Israel an-
nounced the appointment of a
new ambassador to Egypt.
Zvi Mazel, a 30-year veteran
of the Foreign Ministry, will re-
place David Sultan, who re-
turned to Israel in August amid
reports that there were threats
against this life in Egypt.
Mr. Mazel previously served
as deputy director-general for
African affairs and as ambas-
sador to Romania.
In a separate development, Is-
rael and Egypt renewed contacts
to locate Israeli servicemen miss-
ing since the 1973 Yom Kippur
War.
Israel gave the Egyptians a list
of 18 soldiers missing or captured
during the war.
The decision to renew the
search comes after Israeli Presi-
dent Ezer Weizman's recent vis-
it to Egypt.