Lee Meyerhoff Hendler

LEE MEYERHOFF HENDLER is the founder of the civics initiative Freedom’s Feast: A Thanksgiving Celebration for the American People and the author of The Year Mom Got Religion: One Woman’s Midlife Journey into Judaism.

Hendler received the Kweisi Mfume Award for Advocacy from the Maryland NAACP following her work on the Freedom’s Feast project after 9/11. She is past president of Chizuk Amuno Congregation and The Park School Board of Trustees in Baltimore, Maryland, and holds trustee emerita status at Johns Hopkins University.

When she’s not writing, Hendler serves as Co-founder of the Jewish Grandparents Network and speaks on family philanthropy and adult Jewish learning.

Lee lives in Baltimore.

Lee Meyerhoff Hendler’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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