Margaret Wenig

Margaret Moers Wenig (born 1957) is an American rabbi and writer.

Career
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.

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 1984-2000.

In 1990, she wrote the sermon “God is a Woman and She is Growing Older”, which was widely published.

In 2015, Wenig became the first Jewish president of the Academy of Homiletics.

Wenig is currently a "Senior Lecturer in Liturgy and Homiletics" at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Personal life
Wenig married Sharon Kleinbaum in 2008; they later divorced.