A Lesson Well Learned

POWER IN NUMBERS Litwack took heart that the delegation he assembled was the largest Orthodox Jewish contingent to lobby in New York’s capital and that Governor Andrew Cuomo and members of both the State Senate and Assembly took the time to meet with them (Photos: Orthodox Union/Hans Pennink)

For years Maury Litwack director of state political affairs for the Orthodox Union struggled to recruit people to travel to Albany for lobbying missions to make their voices heard.

He gained new determination on a recent visit to Albany accompanied by only a small contingent and seeing another group of hundreds of animal rights activists with T-shirts publicizing their cause.

“Someone said to me ‘Why can’t we bring hundreds of people here with T-shirts saying they care about yeshivah education?’ ”