West Central is the most wonderful welcoming slightly eccentric warm, funny and deeply spiritual congregation. When we moved back to North London some 11 years ago, we did a shul crawl around north London. We went to some lovely congregations, but none moved us or involved us as West Central did and still does. You need to experience its unique atmosphere, and its afternoon teas, not to mention its occasional self-catered lunches, which are remarkable. Do join us for a service and see how you like it- you won't be disappointed.
 
Julia Neuberger

BARONESS NEUBERGER DBE

BARONESS 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, of the Runnymede Trust and was a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum until 2006. Until recently she was a Trustee of the British Council and of Jewish Care. She is 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 and has recently been appointed President of Liberal Judaism.

She is the author of several books on Judaism, women, healthcare ethics and on caring for dying people, and most recent book, 'The Moral State We're In', was published in March 2005. At present she is working on a book on old age.

She was created a Life Peer in June 2004 (Liberal Democrat). Baroness Neuberger has also just returned from Harvard University where she has been Bloomberg Professor of Divinity for the Spring Semester 2006.

In her spare time she likes swimming, gardening, family life, opera and Irish life.