Julia Neuberger

Rabbi The Right Honourable
The Baroness Neuberger
DBE
Official portrait, 2023
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office
15 June 2004
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Julia Babette Sarah Schwab

(1950-02-27) 27 February 1950 (age 74)
London, England
Political partyNone (crossbencher)
Other political
affiliations		Liberal Democrats (1988–2011)
Social Democratic Party (Before 1988)
Spouse
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(m. 1973)​
Children2
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge
Leo Baeck College
Neuberger's voice
recorded 2012, as part of an audio description of the West London Synagogue for VocalEyes

Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, DBE (née Schwab; born 27 February 1950) is a British rabbi and politician. 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] She is a member of the House of Lords.

Neuberger was the second woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the UK, the first being Jackie Tabick.[3]

  1. ^ "Meet the directors". UCLH. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Rabbi Julia Neuberger". West London Synagogue. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
  3. ^ "Julia Neuberger".