“I put it to senior colleagues at the Board. There’s isn’t much overlap between local politics and the issues I engage with in my Board role. I work openly with different parties and I don’t see that as a problem.”
One of his Board duties is to serve the recently launched All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Jews, for which the Board acts as secretariat.
Mr Rosenberg rejoined the Board last May, having previously been its interfaith and social action officer. In between, he was director of the Faiths Forum for London.
“I have been thinking of public service and how I could apply myself to it,” he said.
“I said to my better half I was thinking of maybe the rabbinate or politics — and she said she didn’t want to be a rabbi’s wife.”
West Hampstead is being contested by the Lib Dems, Conservatives, the Greens, Ukip and a Trade Union and Socialist Coalition candidate.