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Jewish News T-Shirt Offer Please clip coupon and mail to: Yesl Start me on a subscription to The Jewish News for the period and amount circled below. Please send me the T-shirt. JEWISH NEWS T-SHIRT 20300 Civic Center Dr. Southfield, Mich. 48076-4138 NAME This offer is for new subscriptions only. Cur- rent subscribers may order the T-shirt for $4.75. Allow four weeks delivry. ADDRESS CITY (Circle One) (Circle One) ZIP year: $26 2 years: $46 Out of State: $33 Enclosed $ ADULT EX. W. ADULT LARGE ADULT MED. CHILD LARGE CHILD MED. CHILD SMALL L 12 STATE J FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1988 larmed by recent stat- istics that show one million Jews in the United States do not vote, rabbis and other Jewish , leaders are joining a national registration drive to combat a possible drop in the Jewish vote in November. The community mobiliza- tion drive follows a study by the Synagogue Council of America which states that 25 percent of the nation's four million eligible Jewish voters are not registered. In fact, the study says, thousands of registered Jewish voters fail to cast ballots. Targeted as non-voters is the 18 to 25-year-old age group, mostly those in urban areas and those who moved to the Sunbelt cities from the Northeast and Midwest. Jewish voters, the study states, historically have not joined a national trend of eligible voters who do not paricipate in local, state and national elections. For decades, 90 percent of eligible Jewish voters cast" their ballots in national elections, the SCA says. As a result, says Gilbert Kahn, a domestic affairs consultant for the SCA who worked on the survey, the American Jewish com- munity has held major political influence. But Kahn says American Jewish community political involvement throughout the country is waning. Results of the study, he says, show that the current estimated 70 per- cent registration rate will continue to plummet. The study, conducted by the SCA and the New York Jewish Community Relations Council, shows that rates of voter registration among members of tested synagogues in southern Florida has reached as low as 37 percent in some areas. The study indicates that Jewish registration rates were at 55 to 75 percent for the 1984 election in New York City, which comprises the largest population of Jews in the country. "When we are dealing with a community that makes up just 2.8 percent of the nation's population, any drop in voting numbers is significant in our ability to have an im- pact on issues' of critical im- portance to the survival of the Jewish community," says Miriam Schey, a community - affairs associate with the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit. lb offset the trend, the JCCouncil and the Jewish War Veterans have launched community-wide registration drives. And rabbis throughout the city have us- ed the bimah during Shabbat and High Holy Day services to encourage congregation members to vote. "Up until now, we assumed that Jews just voted in large numbers," says Rabbi Irwin Groner of Congregation Shaarey Zedek, a vice presi-