Baroness Neuberger DBE became a rabbi in 1977 and served the South London Liberal Synagogue for twelve years. Over the last two decades she has been Chair of Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust, a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, Trustee of the Imperial War Museum, the British Council and Jewish Care and is currently Trustee of the Booker Prize Foundation. The author of several books on Judaism, women, healthcare ethics and on care for the dying, including The Moral State We're In (2005) and Not Dead Yet - a Manifesto for Old Age (2008), she was created a Life Peer (Liberal Democrat) in 2004, and was appointed the Prime Minister's Champion for Volunteering.

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