Herman N. Neuberger

Herman Naftali Neuberger (26 June 1918 – 21 October 2005) He was the brother of the physician Albert Neuberger.

Early years Born in Hassfurt, northern Bavaria, he was the youngest of three children of Max (Meir) Neuburger (1877–1931), cloth merchant and businessman, and Bertha Neuberger (née Hiller), When he was eight years old the Neubergers moved to Würzburg. When he was 13, a few weeks after his bar mitzvah, his father died. They remained married until her death in 1994. In 1975 when Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was still in power in Iran and the country was secular, Jews had few opportunities to study Torah. Neuberger brought a small group of young Iranian Jews to the yeshiva with the intent that they would go back to Iran after receiving their rabbinical degrees to become educators. Before this could happen, the Ayatollah Khomeini's government took power in 1979 creating a more difficult situation for Persian Jews. Through a series of connections, Neuberger worked to help over 60,000 Jews escape from Iran.

Recognition as a college Neuberger and his friend Rabbi Moshe Sherer started the Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools to help yeshivas gain recognition amongst American Colleges.