After completing a psychology degree at
Manchester University she worked for a
mental health charity in a
therapeutic community, and for a London borough in adult psychiatric care. She was
ordained as a rabbi in 1987 by the
Leo Baeck College and has worked as a community rabbi ever since. She was Chair of the Assembly of Rabbis at the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain (now the
Movement for Reform Judaism) from 1998 to 2003. Rothschild was a lay member of the Bromley Research Ethics Committee for many years, and is an Appointed Member of the Standards Committee for the
London Borough of Bromley as well as an Appointed Member of the
National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care. She is also a trained counsellor and has trained as an executive coach. She has spoken out against the suppression of women's voices on religious matters in
Israel and restrictions on the right of women to pray at the
Western Wall. She is a member of the Steering Team of
Tzelem, a cross-communal clerical activist organisation campaigning on broad social issues such as the UK government's response to the
Syrian Refugee Crisis.
Writings Rothschild has written extensively on ethical issues, as well as on prayer and on new
liturgies. She is known for her creation of a large number of new rituals and prayers for life events, mainly though not exclusively to mark events in women's lives. She has also written liturgies to help with end of life experiences. She answered questions on the website of TotallyJewish.com for some years, has been one of the contributors to the
Parashat haShavua column for
The Jewish Chronicle and frequently contributes to
Jewish News. ==Personal life==