One of Nine Rabbis Who Ruled on Langer Case Is Identified .
Grandchild
Rabbi Mizrahi was finally
JERUSALEM (JTA) — as an eminent scholar and Rabbi Eliezer Goldsmith, one
of the extreme opponents to approved to be a new mem-
of Freud Seated The name of one of the nine author.
Chief the verdict concerning the ber of the Supreme Rabbini-
Ashkenazi
When
rabbis who decided that Han-
•
cal Court.
Rabbi
Shlomo
Goren
dis- Langers.
ill Loin-lions
och and Miriam Langer, the
brother and sister who were
LONDON—Clement Freud,
known as the "mamzerim,"
grandson of the father of
could be married to their
psychology, Sigmund Freud,
sweethearts was revealed
has been elected the Isle of
Ely's member of Parlia- here.
When the decision was
ment, the Liberal Party's .
first Jewish representative originally announced last
year, it was decided not to
since 1945.
Freud, whose father is disclose the names of the
Ernst Freud, an architect, rabbis for fear of reprisals.
will recapture the seat for-
The appointments com-
merly held by the late James mittee of the Chief Rabbin-
de Rothtschild, who remain- ate discussed the candidacy
ed in the post from 1920 to of Rabbi Shalom Mizrahi to
1945. Baron Lionel de Roths- t h e Supreme Rabbinical
child first held the post in Court.
1847, and from that time
During the discussion, Se-
until 1874 when the first Jew-
Ovadia
ish Tory, Saul Isaac, ap- phardic Chief Rabbi Mizrahi
Yosef
praised
Rabbi
pr 1 in the House, all of
were
MPs
Jewish
the:
Liberal.
As a result of his election,
Freud will restore a tradi-
tion of Jewish Liberal par-
ticipation in the House of
Commons. Almost 150 years
ago, the Liberal Party cham-
' pioned for Jewish political
emancipation in England
and was for some time `:its
sole vehicle."
Every Parliament prior to
1945 had Jews as Liberal
members.
The victory of the Vienna-
born MP has put the total
Jewish MPs at 41. In the
last general election, the
number of Jewish MPs was
40 — 31 Socialists and nine
Tories.
Gabriel Rey, London Jew-
ish Chronicle correspondent,
reports that two of the Jew-
ish MPs, Renee Short and
Sally Oppenheim, are women.
He said that "probably as
many as a dozen of the men
hardly ever put a foot inside
a synagogue or even retain
anything more than a very
tenuous connection with the
community. Some have even
married out of it."
When he heard Rabbi
cussed Rabbi Mizrahi's qual-
ifications he mentioned his Goren's remark, he express-
spiritual courage. Rabbi Gor- ed his reservations about
en noted that Rabbi Mizrahi Rabbi Mizrahi. Until then,
had been the first to sign the Rabbi Goldsmith was one of
Halakha verdict, which re- Rabbi Mizrahi's enthusiastic
moved the taint of bastardy supporters in the appoint-
from the Langers and which ments committee.
permitted the m to get
married.
Daily—Hospital—Sympathy
One of the members of the
appointments committee was
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