Editing Julia Neuberger (section)

==Career==
===Religious roles===
Neuberger taught at her [[alma mater]], Leo Baeck College, from 1977 to 1997. She 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.<ref name="History">{{cite web |url=http://www.southlondon.org/about/synagoguehistory.html |title=History of South London Liberal Synagogue |publisher=South London Liberal Synagogue |date= |accessdate=31 January 2025}}</ref> She was president of [[West Central Liberal Synagogue]]. On 1 February 2011, the [[West London Synagogue]] (a [[Movement for Reform Judaism]] synagogue) announced that she had been appointed as senior rabbi of the synagogue.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.reformjudaism.org.uk/press-releases/west-london-synagogue-appoints-rabbi-julia-neuberger-dbe-as-senior-rabbi.html |title=West London Synagogue Appoints Rabbi Julia Neuberger DBE as Senior Rabbi &#124; Press Releases- the Movement for Reform Judaism |website=news.reformjudaism.org.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050726/http://news.reformjudaism.org.uk/press-releases/west-london-synagogue-appoints-rabbi-julia-neuberger-dbe-as-senior-rabbi.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> She retired from her West London Synagogue role in March 2020. She regularly appeared on the [[Wake Up to Wogan#Pause for Thought|''Pause for Thought'']] section on [[BBC Radio 2]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Katie |last=Sampson |date=1 October 1997|title=I work for: Julia Neuberger |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/i-work-for-julia-neuberger-1233213.html|publisher=www.independent.co.uk|access-date=11 July 2014}}</ref>

===Public sector activity===
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. She was also [[Chancellor (education)|chancellor]] of the [[University of Ulster]] from 1994 to 2000.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Curtain Rises On New Chancellor|url=https://www.ulster.ac.uk/news/2010/june/curtain-rises-on-new-chancellor|date = 8 June 2010|access-date=20 March 2021|website=[[Ulster University]]}}</ref> ''[[Who's Who]]'' lists a large number of voluntary and philanthropic roles she has undertaken. She became the chair of [[University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust|University College London Hospitals]] (UCLH) in 2019.<ref name="Directors">{{Cite web |url=http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/aboutus/whoweare/bod/Pages/Directorprofiles.aspx#JuliaNeuberger |title=Meet the directors |website=[[UCLH]] |access-date=7 February 2020 |archive-date=22 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222074417/http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/aboutus/whoweare/bod/Pages/Directorprofiles.aspx#JuliaNeuberger |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="wls">{{cite web|url=http://www.wls.org.uk/content/view/117/150/|title=Rabbi Julia Neuberger|publisher=[[West London Synagogue]]|access-date=3 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928024717/http://www.wls.org.uk/content/view/117/150/|archive-date=28 September 2011}}</ref>

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 1997 book, ''The State We're In''.

===Political and parliamentary roles===
Neuberger was the [[Social Democratic Party (UK)|Social Democratic Party]] candidate for [[Tooting (UK Parliament constituency)|Tooting]] in the [[1983 United Kingdom general election|1983 general election]], coming third with 8,317 votes (18.1%). She was appointed a [[Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire|DBE]] in the [[2004 New Year Honours]] for "services to the NHS and other Public Bodies". In [[2004 Special Honours|June 2004]], she was created a [[life peer]] as '''Baroness Neuberger''', of Primrose Hill in the [[London Borough of Camden]]. She served as a Liberal Democrat Health spokesperson from 2004 to 2007. On 29 June 2007, Neuberger was appointed by the incoming Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]] as the government's champion of volunteering.<ref>[http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page12225.asp Appointment as "Volunteering Tsar", on 10 Downing Street website 29 June 2007.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701194808/http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page12225.asp |date= 1 July 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/mar/10/voluntarysector.socialcare|title=Report of Neuberger's forthcoming speech on Volunteering, in ''The Guardian'', 10 March 2008.|work=The Guardian|date=10 March 2008|access-date=29 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/cabinetoffice/third_sector/assets/neuberger.pdf|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20081229164218/http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/cabinetoffice/third_sector/assets/neuberger.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-12-29|title=Report on Volunteering, March 2008 (PDF)}}</ref> She resigned the Liberal Democrat whip in September 2011<ref>{{cite web |title=career |url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/3690/career |access-date=3 February 2025}}</ref> upon becoming senior rabbi of the [[West London Synagogue]].