Margaret Wenig
American rabbi (born 1957)
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Career
In 1976, Wenig co-wrote with Naomi Janowitz Siddur Nashim, the first Jewish prayer book to refer to God using female pronouns and imagery.[3]
Wenig graduated from Brown University in 1978[4][5] and was ordained in 1984.[6] Wenig served as a rabbi at Beth Am, The People's Temple, located in New York City, from 1984 to 2000.[7][8]
In 1990, Wenig wrote the widely published sermon "God is a Woman and She is Growing Older."[9][10]
In 2015, Wenig became the first Jewish president of the Academy of Homiletics.[11]
Wenig is[when?] a senior lecturer in liturgy and homiletics at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.[7]
Personal life
Wenig married Sharon Kleinbaum in 2008; they later divorced.[12][10][13]