Walter Zanger

Rabbi Dr. Walter Zanger
Walter Zanger in Beit She'an
Born	Walter Zanger 25 September 1935 Brooklyn, New York
Died	28 August 2015 Jerusalem, Israel
Residence	Jerusalem, Israel
Citizenship	Israeli, American
Alma mater	Amherst College, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Home town	Brooklyn, New York
Spouse(s)	Paula
Children	Hanan, Mikhal, Yoel, Jenia
Website	http://www.walterzanger.net/

Walter Zanger (Hebrew: וולטר זנגר‎‎), was an American-born Israeli author, tour guide and television personality. He was a contributor to newspapers, encyclopedias and magazines, and served as a member of the editorial board of the Jewish Bible Society.

Walter Zanger was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1935. He moved with his family to Jerusalem, Israel in 1966 and resided in the city's Ein Karem neighborhood until his death in 2015.

Zanger graduated from Amherst College with a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in 1956.

He then studied at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, graduating with a Bachelor of Hebrew Letters in 1958. Zanger was also a student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received a Masters of Arts from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and was ordained as a Reform rabbi in 1962.

Zanger served as the rabbi of the Harford County Jewish Center in Aberdeen, Maryland from 1959–61 and as the rabbi of Temple Sinai in Massapequa, New York from 1961-62. Afterwards, he served as a chaplain (with the rank of captain) in the U.S. Air Force in Southeast Asia from 1962-64.

In 2000 he officiated the second bar mitzvah of Rabbi Morrison David Bial. Rabbi Bail had officiated Zanger's own bar mitzvah 52 years earlier.