Margaret Wenig


Margaret Moers Wenig is an American rabbi and writer.

Career

In 1976, she co-wrote with Naomi Janowitz Siddur Nashim, the first Jewish prayer book to refer to God using female pronouns and imagery.
Wenig graduated from Brown University in 1978 and was ordained in 1984. Wenig served as a rabbi at Beth Am, The People's Temple, located in New York City, from 1984 to 2000.
In 1990, she wrote the widely published sermon "God is a Woman and She is Growing Older."
In 2015, Wenig became the first Jewish president of the Academy of Homiletics.
Wenig is a senior lecturer in liturgy and homiletics at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Personal life

Wenig married Sharon Kleinbaum in 2008; they later divorced.