Julia Neuberger
British politician and rabbi (born 1950) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, DBE (née Schwab; born 27 February 1950) is a British member of the House of Lords. She previously took the Liberal Democrat whip, but resigned from the party and became a crossbencher in 2011 upon becoming the full-time senior rabbi of the West London Synagogue, from which she retired in 2020. She became the chair of University College London Hospitals (UCLH) in 2019.[1][2]
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Rabbi The Right Honourable The Baroness Neuberger | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 15 June 2004 Life Peerage | |
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Born | Julia Babette Sarah Schwab (1950-02-27) 27 February 1950 (age 74) London, England |
Political party | None (crossbencher) |
Other political affiliations | Liberal Democrats (1988–2011) Social Democratic Party (Before 1988) |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge Leo Baeck College |
recorded 2012, as part of an audio description of the West London Synagogue for VocalEyes | |
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Neuberger was the second woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the UK, the first being Jackie Tabick.[3]