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LONNY GOLDSMITH
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n Wednesday, April 1, at
the Lansing Center, Jews
from across the state will
be heard at the fourth
annual Jewish Advocacy Day.
The 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. program,
sponsored by the Michigan Jewish
Conference, gives members of the .
Jewish community throughout
Michigan a chance to speak to state
legislators about issues of communal
concern.
Showing a Jewish
presence in
Lansing.
"Our goal is to show legislators
that they have Jewish constituents
and there is an organized communi-
ty in Lansing," said Allan Gale, the
assistant director for government
relations for the Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan Detroit.
"This community needs to be recog-
nized."
Two speakers scheduled for the
day are Mary Lannoye, state budget
director, and Sharon Park, senior
planning research associate with the
Michigan League for Human
Services.
Following the two speakers, the
crowd will be briefed on the two
major issues they will discuss with
legislators when they make the trek
to the Capitol Building.
"We'll be lobbying against poor
people having their benefits taken
away by the Family Independence
Agency (which administers welfare
programs) without a 10-day notifi-
cation period," said Cindy Hughey,
the state government affairs director
for the Michigan Jewish Conference.
"Previously, there was a pending
notification period, but the new rule
is that no prior notification is neces-
sary. Only notification after termina-
tion.
"We also are lobbying for the
`Clean' Religious Freedom
Restoration Act bill."
Currently, there are two RFRA
bills that are being considered by
state legislators: a "clean" bill that is
available to everyone without excep-
tion and a bill that leaves out pris-
oners.
"If prisoners are exempt from reli-
gious liberty today, who will it be
tomorrow?" Hughey said.
The Michigan Jewish Conference,
founded in 1991, is a Lansing-
based lobbying organization that
represents 14 Jewish communities in
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