Julia Neuberger

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Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger DBE (birth name: Julia Schwab ; * February 27, 1950 ) is a British rabbi , writer and politician of the Liberal Democrats , who has been a member of the House of Lords since 2004 .

Life

University degree, rabbi and unsuccessful candidate for the lower house

After visiting the South Hampstead High School and studying at Newnham College of the University of Cambridge Julia Neuberger, daughter visited German Jewish immigrants, the rabbinical seminary of the Leo Baeck College in London , where she graduated 1977th She was the second female rabbi in Great Britain after Jackie Tabick . She was then rabbi of the South London Liberal Synagogue from 1977 to 1989 and a lecturer at Leo Baeck College from 1977 to 1994. In the general election on June 9, 1983 , she ran for the Liberal Democrats in the constituency of Tooting unsuccessfully for a seat as a member of the House of Commons .

After Julia Neuberger, who also wrote numerous books on Judaism , the role of women and other topics, was a guest fellow at the King's Fund Institute from 1989 to 1991 and a guest fellow at Harvard Medical School from 1991 to 1992, she became a guest in 1992 Chairwoman of the National Health Service (NHS) Trust for Community Health Services for the London Borough of Camden and London Borough of Islington , and held that position until 1997.

In addition, she was a member of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) from 1990 to 1995, a member of the Ethics Committee of the British Medical Association (BMA) between 1992 and 1994 and of the General Medical Council (GMC) from 1993 to 2001 .

University chancellor and functionary

Julia Neuberger, which between 1994 and 2000. Chancellor of the University of Ulster , was in 1997 chief administrator of the Foundation The King's Fund and held this position until 2004.. During this time she was also a member of the Medical Research Council (MRC) from 1995 to 2000, the library commission between 1995 and 1997 and from 2001 to 2004 a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life , an independent UK Government Advisory Board.

In addition, Julia Neuberger, who was Civil Service Commissioner from 2001 to 2002 , was involved in numerous institutions and organizations and was, among other things, Vice President of the Patients' Association from 1992 to 1997, and a member of the University College Council from 1993 to 1996 London (UCL) and from 1994 to 1996 from Save the Children . She also acted as trustee of the think tank The Runnymede Trust between 1990 and 1997 and as trustee of the Imperial War Museum from 1999 to 2006 .

House of Lords

Julia Neuberger, who regularly presented programs on the radio, was knighted as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2003 .

Shortly afterwards she was raised to the higher nobility by a letters patent dated June 15, 2004 as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Neuberger , of Primrose Hill in the London Borough of Camden . On July 12, 2004, she was introduced as a member of the House of Lords . There she was initially a member of the Liberal Democrats.

During her membership in the House of Lords, she was first spokeswoman for her group for health policy from 2004 to 2007 and then until 2010 Prime Minister Gordon Brown's commissioner for volunteering.

Subsequently, Baroness Neuberger, who was chairwoman of the Commission on the Future of Volunteering from 2006 to 2008, became chairwoman of the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board in 2008, and chairwoman of the legal advisory body in 2009 Diversity ( Advsy Panel Judicial Diversity ) and 2009 chairwoman of the One Housing Group .

Baroness has received several honors for her longstanding services and is among others honorary doctorates from the University of Humberside , the University of Ulster , the University of Stirling , the City University London , Oxford Brookes University , the University of Teesside , the University of Nottingham , von The Open University , Queen's University Belfast , Sheffield Hallam University , University of Aberdeen and, in 2006, the University of London . Furthermore, she has been an Honorary Fellow of the Mansfield College of the University of Oxford since 2007 , the City and Guilds of London Institute (Hon FCGI) in 1998, the Royal College of Physicians (Hon FRCP) in 2004 , and the Royal College of General Practitioners (Hon FRCGP) and 2007 from the Royal College of Psychiatrists (Hon FRCPsych).

After Baroness Neuberger became a full-time rabbi of the West London Synagogue in September 2011 , she left the Liberal Democrats and has since been a non-party member ( crossbencher ) in the House of Lords .

Publications

  • The Story of Judaism for Children , 1986
  • Caring for Dying People of Different Faiths , 1987, 3rd edition 2004
  • Days of Decision , 1987
  • Whatever's Happening to Women , 1991
  • A Necessary End , Associate Editor John White, 1991
  • The Things That Matter , 1993
  • Ethics and Healthcare: Research Ethics Ctees in the UK , 1992
  • On Being Jewish , 1995
  • Dying Well: A guide to enabling a good death , 1999, 2nd edition 2004
  • Hidden Assets: Values ​​and decision-making in the NHS , Associate Editor Bill New, 2002
  • The Moral State We're In , 2005
  • Dead Yet: A manifesto for old age , 2008
  • Is That All There Is? Leaving a Legacy , 2011
in German language
  • The care of dying people of different faiths , Berlin 1995, 2nd edition 2009, ISBN 3-86126-545-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Introduction of Baroness Neuberger (Hansard, July 12, 2004)
personal data
SURNAME Neuberger, Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neuberger, Julia Babette Sarah, Baroness Neuberger (full name); Schwab, Julia Babette Sarah (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rabbi, author and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1950