Margaret Moers Wenig

RABBI MARGARET MOERS WENIG, D.D., has served in rabbinical, academic, and liturgical roles spanning four decades, including as senior lecturer in liturgy and homiletics at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion.

Wenig became the first Jewish president of the Academy of Homiletics in 2015. She co-wrote Siddur Nashim in 1976, the first Jewish prayer book to refer to God using female pronouns and imagery, and authored the widely published sermon "God is a Woman and She is Growing Older." She holds degrees from Brown University and Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, where she was ordained in 1984.

Wenig served as rabbi of Beth Am, The People’s Temple in New York City from 1984 to 2000 and holds the title of rabbi emerita there.

Margaret lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Margaret Moers Wenig’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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