(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Rabbi Koppel Reich, one of the two representatives of the Jewish religion in the Hungarian Upper Chamber, refrained from attending the opening session of the Senate on the advice of Hungarian leaders, a despatch to the “Neue Freie Presse” states.
According to the despatch, leaders of the Catholic Church in Hungary and influential politicians urged the aged rabbi to absent himself from the session because if he were to attend, the honor of presiding at the opening session would, in accordance with custom, have to be accorded to him as the oldest member of the Senate.
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