Helen Freeman is a
British Reform Jewish rabbi
A rabbi (; ) is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi—known as ''semikha''—following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of t ...
who from 1999 to 2010 was rabbi at
West London Synagogue
The West London Synagogue, abbreviated WLS, and fully the West London Synagogue of British Jews () is a Reform Judaism, Reform Judaism, Jewish congregation and synagogue, located near Marble Arch, at 34 Upper Berkeley Street, in the City of Wes ...
, was its principal rabbi from 2010 to 2020 and is now (jointly with David Mitchell), its senior rabbi.
The daughter of a
German-Jewish
The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 CE, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages (c. 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish commu ...
refugee, she was born in
Croydon
Croydon is a large town in South London, England, south of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Croydon, a Districts of England, local government district of Greater London; it is one of the largest commercial districts in Greater Lond ...
and was educated at
Croydon High School.
She was ordained as a rabbi in 1990 and was previously a
speech therapist
Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language. Spoken language combines vowel and consonant sounds to form units of meaning like words, which belong to a language's lexicon. There are many different intentional speech acts, suc ...
and a
Jungian analyst.
References
External links
Profile on West London Synagogue websiteProfile on Cumberland Lodge website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British Reform rabbis
Clergy from London
Jewish Renewal women rabbis
People associated with Leo Baeck College
Rabbis from London
{{UK-rabbi-stub