1. Julia Neuberger was the second woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the UK and the first to lead a synagogue.
23 Facts About Julia Neuberger
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Julia Neuberger became the chair of University College London Hospitals in 2019.
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Julia Neuberger's mother was a German-Jewish refugee who had fled the Nazis, arriving in England at the age of 22 in 1937, while her father was born in England to German-Jewish immigrants who had settled there before the First World War.
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Julia Neuberger attended South Hampstead High School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she first studied Assyriology.
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Julia Neuberger obtained her rabbinic diploma at Leo Baeck College.
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Julia Neuberger was the second woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the UK, the first being Jackie Tabick in 1975.
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Julia Neuberger was rabbi of the South London Liberal Synagogue from 1977 to 1989 and was the first female rabbi to lead a synagogue in the United Kingdom.
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Julia Neuberger retired from her West London Synagogue role in March 2020.
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Julia Neuberger regularly appeared on the Pause for Thought section on BBC Radio 2.
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Julia Neuberger was chair of Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust from 1992 to 1997, and chief executive of the King's Fund from 1997 to 2004.
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Julia Neuberger was chancellor of the University of Ulster from 1994 to 2000.
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Julia Neuberger became the chair of University College London Hospitals in 2019.
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Julia Neuberger was the Social Democratic Party candidate for Tooting in the 1983 general election, coming third with 8,317 votes.
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Julia Neuberger was appointed a DBE in the 2004 New Year Honours for "services to the NHS and other Public Bodies".
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Julia Neuberger served as a Liberal Democrat Health spokesperson from 2004 to 2007.
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On 29 June 2007, Julia Neuberger was appointed by the incoming Prime Minister Gordon Brown as the government's champion of volunteering.
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Julia Neuberger resigned the Liberal Democrat whip in September 2011 upon becoming senior rabbi of the West London Synagogue.
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In 1997, Julia Neuberger criticised education in Northern Ireland as "sectarian" at the opening of Loughview Integrated Primary School.
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In January 2013, Julia Neuberger was appointed chair of an Independent Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient.
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Julia Neuberger was elected vice-president of Attend, a charity that supports and expands the roles volunteers play in creating healthy communities, in 2006 and held the position until she retired in 2011.
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Julia Neuberger was appointed to the board of Irish health insurers Vhi Healthcare for a five-year period from 2005 by Mary Harney, the Tanaiste and Minister for Health and Children.
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Julia Neuberger is a vice president of the Jewish Leadership Council.
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Julia Neuberger's brother-in-law is David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury.