Rabbi Baroness Neuberger DBE will present the next Ebor lecture, held in York Minster.

On Wednesday 1 July the Member of the House of Lords and Senior Rabbi to the West London Synagogue will discuss ‘Learning to live a life, ready for death.’

The lecture is free at open to members of the public. It starts at 7.00pm.

Rabbi Neuberger was educated at Cambridge and Leo Baeck College. She served the South London Liberal Synagogue from 1977 to 1989, chaired Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust 1993-97, was CEO of the King’s Fund until 2004, Chancellor of the University of Ulster 1994 – 2000 and Bloomberg Professor of Divinity at Harvard University 2006.

She was created a life peer in 2004 and was Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Champion for Volunteering between 2007 – 2009 and chaired One Housing Group and the Advisory Panel on Judicial Diversity for the Lord Chancellor from 2009 – 2010.

In 2013 the Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway for Dying Patients, which she chaired, was published. Her published books include Not Dead Yet – A Manifesto For Old Age (2008) and Is That All There Is? (2011).

Admission by ticket only, begins at 6.30pm and the lectures start at 7.00pm. Each lecture is followed by a short question and answer session with an anticipated end time of 8.30pm. Tickets are free and can be booked online at www.yorksj.ac.uk/eborlectures or by contacting the Ebor Lectures Co-ordinator on T: 01904 876474 or E: eborlectures@yorksj.ac.uk