Rabbi Sheila Weinberg

RABBI SHEILA PELTZ WEINBERG is a co-founder of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and the author of Surprisingly Happy: An Atypical Religious Memoir and God Loves the Stranger.

Weinberg graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1986 and served as a congregational rabbi for seventeen years, including thirteen years at the Jewish Community of Amherst, a Reconstructionist congregation in Massachusetts, and previously at Beth Am Israel in suburban Philadelphia.

When she’s not writing, Weinberg teaches mindfulness meditation and yoga to rabbis, Jewish professionals, and lay people, and serves as a spiritual director to clergy across the United States. Her published work covers feminism, spiritual direction, parenting, social justice, and mindfulness from a Jewish perspective.

Rabbi Sheila Weinberg’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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