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American rabbi From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margaret Moers Wenig (born 1957) is an American rabbi and writer.[1][2][3][4]
In 1976, she and Naomi Janowitz wrote Siddur Nashim, which was the first Jewish prayer book to refer to God using female pronouns and imagery.[4]
Wenig graduated from Brown University in 1978,[5][6] and was ordained in 1984.[2] Wenig served as a rabbi at Beth Am, The People’s Temple, located in New York City, from 1984-2000.[7][8]
In 1990, she wrote the sermon “God is a Woman and She is Growing Older”, which was widely published.[9][10]
In 2015, Wenig became the first Jewish president of the Academy of Homiletics.[11]
Wenig is currently a "Senior Lecturer in Liturgy and Homiletics" at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.[7]
Wenig married Sharon Kleinbaum in 2008; they later divorced.[12][10][13]
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