About Margaret Wenig
Born 1957. Margaret Wenig is a rabbi.
Margaret Moers Wenig (born 1957) is an American rabbi and writer.
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.
Wenig graduated from Brown University in 1978 and was ordained in 1984. Wenig served as a rabbi at Beth Am, The People's Temple, located in New York City, from 1984 to 2000.
In 1990, Wenig wrote the widely published sermon "God is a Woman and She is Growing Older."
Wenig is a senior lecturer in liturgy and homiletics at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
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