Public Policy | State Government Relations
ACTIVITIES IN LANSING
In partnership with the Michigan Jewish Conference (MJC), the Jewish Community Relations Council works to establish and maintain relationships with state public officials who hold positions that are important to the Jewish agenda.
The growing importance of state issues to the Jewish community, term-limited retirements in state government, and the increasing financial and political power in county government, point toward a need for Council to ensure that access and influence are maximized.
Council and MJC jointly support legislative positions on the state level addressing policy issues that:
1) Affect health and welfare.
2) Interfere with or impede the ability to practice religion.
3) Violate the First Amendment’s principle of separation of church and state.
4) Adversely affect non-profit organizations.
 | Michigan Jewish Conference and Council work together to arrange state
legislators' visits to Jewish community
social service agencies | | |
Council also promotes the importance of state issues and the impact of legislative and regulatory actions to Jewish organizations and individuals. The change in delivery of social welfare benefits to some members of the Jewish community, which results in a strain on Federation and other community dollars, and necessitates an increase in volunteer and other resource needs of the Jewish social welfare agencies, highlights the need for greater awareness and activism by synagogues, fraternal organizations, and individuals to assist and advocate.
Advocacy on behalf of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit regarding state appropriations for social service agencies is conducted by the firm Muchmore, Harrington, Smalley and Associates in Lansing.
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