Rabbi Alex Goldberg
Rabbi Alex Goldberg is a barrister, chaplain, and human rights activist. He is currently the Dean of the College of Chaplains and Coordinating Chaplain at the University of Surrey. He is the only rabbi within this role in Europe. He is currently working on a number of international and UK-based community relations and community development projects and is the Jewish chaplain to the University of Surrey. Alex regularly co-hosts a BBC radio show, a contributor to BBC Radio 2's Pause For Thought and was a member of the BBC's Religion and Ethics Conference.
He chairs the English Football Association's Faith Network and founded the human rights group René Cassin.
He was founding chair of Faiths Forum for London and the Mayor of London's Faith Conference. He has been a led a delegation to the UN Human Rights Council for over a decade where he successfully changed international law in relation to group access to justice. In 2012, he was an Olympic and Paralympic Chaplain.
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Rabbi Goldberg is a regular on BBC Radio 2's Pause for Thought
Rabbi Alexander Goldberg is the Dean of Religious Life at the University of Surrey.- Dedicated to student life on campus
- Leads team of 25 at the Religious Life and Belief Centre fro 8 faith and belief backgrounds
- Serves Jewish pastoral and spiritual needs of campus staff and students at Surrey University, GSA, PPA, College of Law and University of Creative Arts.
- Available to teach Bar and Bat Mitzvah
- Radio interviews
- Regular media contributor to Radio 2's Pause for Thought
- Diversity Training
- Schools Visit
- Academic expert on community development, religion and human rights, Holocaust Theology, human rights and Judaism and interfaith relations.
- Proudly serves Surrey Police.
- Advisor on matters of Jewish law.
Alex Goldberg received ordination in 2019 from Montefiore College and Eretz Hemdah. His Semicha was co-signed by Lord Sacks.
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