Rabbi Nancy H. Wiener
Rabbi Nancy H. Wiener, DMin is Clinical Director of the Jacob
and Hilda Blaustein Center for Pastoral Counseling at the New York School of
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She was named the Dr.
Paul and Trudy Steinberg Distinguished Professor in Human Relations in
2012. She also serves as the rabbinic program’s Fieldwork
Coordinator. Rabbi Wiener was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion in 1990, where she received an MA in Hebrew Letters in
1988. She earned a Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Counseling from HUC-JIR
in 1994. Dr. Wiener is a board certified chaplain with the National
Association of Jewish Chaplains and holds a certificate in Pastoral Counseling
from the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York. She earned an
MA in History from Columbia University and her BA magna cum laude in 1980 from
Brandeis University. She is the author of Beyond
Breaking the Glass: A Spiritual Guide to Your Jewish Wedding, Revised Edition
that was published by CCAR Press in 2012.
Rabbi Wiener helped draft the resolution passed by the CCAR on
officiation at ceremonies for Gay and Lesbian couples, created materials for
CCAR members to use for pre-marital counseling and same-sex ceremonies, and
helped draft the CCAR’s first official statement regarding transgender
Jews. She served on the UAHC (predecessor to the URJ) Gay and Lesbian
Inclusion Committee, URJ Departments of Jewish Family Concerns and Outreach and
Inclusion committees, as well as a range of UJA/Federation Task Forces.
She is a partner of the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health and was one of
18 selected nationally by the National Center for Jewish Healing to be SeRaF
(senior research fellows) Fellow. She has taught at national and international
conferences.
Dr. Wiener sits on the national board of T’ruah: The Jewish Call
for Human Rights and the rabbinic council of Jewish for Racial and Economic
Justice in New York City.
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