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over two competing measures, will
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last year on points of longstand-
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in to political pressure," he said.
Mr. Istook claims that chang-
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"to restore religious freedom, to
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But Jewish and civil liberties
groups, calling the proposal a "re-
ligious compulsion" amendment,
say that it would destroy decades
worth of First Amendment ju-
risprudence aimed at preventing
the government from sanction-
ing any particular religion.
The initial strategy for oppo-
nents will be to maneuver for fair,
open hearings of the Judiciary
Committee. They are hoping for
help from a group of Republican
lawmakers who opposed the
measure last year, including Rep.
Ben Gilman, R-N.Y., Rep. Steven
Schiff, R- N.M., Rep. Chris Shays,
R-Conn., and Rep. Connie Morel-
la, R-Md.
They also are seeking to
strengthen the opposition of
mainstream Christian groups
such as the National Council of
Churches.
Rabbi Saperstein promised
that his group will make defeat-
ing the amendment "our No. 1
domestic priority. We want to
cast this in the starkest possible
terms; this is a proposal that
would be devastating to religious
minorities. We're not going to
give up the religious high
ground."
Vouchers Ruled Down
CELEBRATION
CONNECTION
in our
Classified Section
The news was better for Jewish
activists on another church-state
front.
Recently, a school voucher pro-
gram in Cleveland that provides
government assistance to par-
ents who send their children to
private and religious schools was
rejected by the Ohio Court of Ap-
peals in a unanimous decision.
The Cleveland program, cre-
ated last year for up to 2,000 poor
children, was being watched
closely by voucher advocates in
Washington, who hope to pass
federal legislation promoting the
concept this year.
The court rejected the program
on church-state grounds; earlier
in the year, a Wisconsin court re-
jected a Milwaukee voucher pro-
gram that included religious
schools.
"These decisions help us in
Congress because they allow us
to say that no court in the land
has upheld this kind of scheme,"
said Michael Lieberman, Wash-
ington counsel for the Anti-
Defamation League. 'There have
been adverse decisions up and
down the line, which confirm the
point we have been making all
along."
Jewish activists in Washing-
ton hope that the consistently
negative court decisions will take
the wind out of efforts by groups
such as the Christian Coalition
— and major Orthodox Jewish
organizations — to win congres-
sional endorsement of vouchers.
Egypt Aid Questioned
The foreign aid authorization bill
now working its way through the
House continues to produce con-
gressional huffing and puffing
about American Mideast policy.
Recently, pro-Israel members
beat back a proposal to shift $6.5
million in aid from Egypt and Is-
rael to African countries. That
amendment was offered by Rep.
Tom Campbell, R-Calif, , but re-
jected by a bipartisan group of
legislators worried about its im-
pact on the Mideast peace
process.
Tom Lantos:
Warning to Egypt.
While protecting aid to Egypt,
members of the committee were
vocal in their complaints about
President Hosni Mubarak's dis-
ruptive role in the Middle East
peace process.
The panel approved an
amendment by Rep. Tom Lan-
tos, D-Calif, , warning Egypt that
continuing assistance will depend
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