Sir Barnett Janner, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, was re-elected by the Board today for another term, to serve until 1964. An attorney and one of the foremost Zionist leaders of Britain, Sir Barnett is also a Member of Parliament, representing the Labor Party. From 1931 to 1935, he was in Parliament as a member of the Liberal Party.
Sir Barnett, one of the leaders of world and British Zionism, is also a member of the Council of the Jewish Trust Corporation. He is active in the leadership of the Jewish Board of Guardians, the Cathedral Road Synagogue and the Order Achei B’rith Lodge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Sir Barnett is married to Elsie Sybil Janner, well known in Britain in her own right as a public official, imagistrate, member of various government commissions, and one of the leaders of the Central Committee for Jewish Religious Education.
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