Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

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Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, DBE, (born 1950) is a rabbi, social reformer and member of the House of Lords, where she takes the Liberal Democrat whip. Neuberger was Britain's second female rabbi after Jackie Tabick, and the first to have her own synagogue.

She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and Leo Baeck College, London, where she taught from 1977 to 1997.

She was rabbi of the South London Liberal Synagogue from 1977 to 1989 and is President of West Central Liberal Synagogue. She was also Chair of Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust (1992-1997) and was previously Chief Executive of the King's Fund (from 1997-2004). On 15 June 2004 she was created a life peer as Baroness Neuberger, of Primrose Hill in the London Borough of Camden.

Her book, The Moral State We're In, a study of morality and public policy in modern Britain (ISBN 0-00-718167-1), was published in 2005. The title is an allusion to Will Hutton's The State We're In.

Neuberger is married to Prof. Anthony Neuberger and has two adult children. Her husband is the son of Prof. Albert Neuberger and the brother of Prof. Michael Neuberger, Prof. James Neuberger and Lord Justice Sir David Neuberger,