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 ...

who from 1999 to 2010 was rabbi at West London Synagogue, 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, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages (''circa'' 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish ...

refugee, she was born in

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and was educated at

Croydon High School Croydon High School is an Independent school (UK), independent day school for girls located near Croydon, London, England. It is one of the original schools founded by the Girls' Day School Trust. History The school was founded in 1874 in Welles ...

. She was ordained as a rabbi in 1990 and was previously a speech therapist and a

Jungian analyst Analytical psychology ( de , Analytische Psychologie, sometimes translated as analytic psychology and referred to as Jungian analysis) is a term coined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, to describe research into his new "empirical science" ...

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Profile on West London Synagogue websiteProfile on Cumberland Lodge website
Living people British Reform rabbis Clergy from London People associated with Leo Baeck College Rabbis from London West London Synagogue Year of birth missing (living people) Jewish Renewal women rabbis {{UK-rabbi-stub