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Rabbi Baroness
Julia Neuberger
Friday, August 8, 2008
Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger
DBE was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, and Leo Baeck
College, London. She became a rabbi in 1977 and served the South
London Liberal Synagogue for twelve years before going to the
King's Fund Institute as a Visiting Fellow. She was at Harvard
Medical School in 1991-1992, Chairman of Camden & Islington
Community Health Services NHS Trust from 1993 until 1997, and
then Chief Executive of the King's Fund, an independent health
charity, until 2004. She has been a member of the Committee on
Standards in Public Life, the Medical Research Council and the
General Medical Council, a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust and
the Imperial War Museum (until 2006). Until recently she was
also a Trustee of the British Council and of Jewish Care, and
remains a Trustee of the Booker Prize Foundation, as well as
a founding trustee of the Walter and Liesel Schwab Charitable
Trust in memory of her parents. She is currently chairing the
Commission on the Future of Volunteering, is President of Liberal
Judaism, and has recently been appointed the Prime Minister's
Champion for Volunteering. She was created a Life Peer in June
2004 (Liberal Democrat) and was Bloomberg Professor of Divinity
at Harvard University for the Spring Semester 2006.
Baroness Neuberger is the author
of several books on Judaism, women, healthcare ethics, and on
caring for dying people, and she is at present working on a book
on old age. Her most recently published book is The Moral State
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