A native of Westbury (Long Island), New York, where most of his extended family still live, Rabbi Doug Weber studied music at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY and philosophy at SUNY Albany, earning a BA there with various distinctions in 1976. In 1982 he was awarded both a Masters in Hebrew Literature and his rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, having studied there and at its Jerusalem campus. In 2007 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity by the College-Institute. The Jewish Theological Seminary of America in NYC conferred a similar honorary degree in 2010.

Rabbi Weber is Adjunct Professor at nearby Castleton State College, where he teaches courses in Comparative Religion, Western Faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam and Introduction to Philosophy. He also teaches at the College of Saint Joseph in Rutland, including courses on Western Faiths and Religious Philosophies of the Far East. He is available as a guest speaker and scholar-in-residence. 

Before coming to Rutland in 2005, Rabbi Weber served congregations in Virginia, Ohio, Maine and Colorado. Though ordained in the Reform movement, he became a member of the Rabbinical Assembly (Conservative movement) in 1992. Rabbi Weber holds a certificate of training from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Pastoral Counseling Institute, representing part-time supervised training over a two-year period. He further developed interpersonal counseling skills at the Lakeland Institute of Lorain, Ohio and the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.

During a break from congregation work in the 2004–05 academic year, Rabbi Weber taught at the Solomon Schechter School of Greater Boston and at Hebrew College of Boston's Prozdor program. He also served as rabbi for the Jewish communities of Babson College and the Olin College of Engineering and their Hillel groups.

Doug and Jessica Weber have been married since 1975 and together are the parents of three grown children and one grandson. Their eldest son, Zach, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Otago University in New Zealand. Middle child Taliah is a graduate student in architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. The Webers' youngest son, Eli, works as an environmental engineer in Boulder, Colorado and is a recent alumnus of the Peace Corps.

Doug and Jessica are co-authors of a widely distributed book, The Jewish Baby Handbook: A Guide for Expectant Parents. He also has had articles published in Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, and in 2004 published a chapter in a book of collected essays, Paper Plates: When Only Part of Your Family Keeps Kosher.

Rabbi Weber continues to indulge his musical interests by playing tuba and euphonium when opportunities arise, being perhaps the only rabbi to have played in the annual mass gathering of low brass, 'Tuba Christmas', in several major cities. He served on the Board of Directors of the Boulder Concert Band for four years, and has played in Klezmer pick-up groups. He currently plays in the Castleton State College Wind Ensemble and, in summer, the Rutland City Band. Doug is a regular participant when the RJC holds one of its frequent mid-week Ski Days, and in 2009 began a new athletic adventure as a member of the Rutland Rocks Curling Club.

Philosophy was Rabbi Weber's first intellectual love, and he has remained a Rationalist in outlook. Though he enjoys learning with Jews of a more mystical bent, his intellectual interests tend to be in history and in that basic human quest, attaining a sense of understanding one's place in the universe through thoughtful reflection. It is that love that animates Rabbi Weber in what he attempts to teach and learn with people of all ages. In more recent years, his interests have increasingly focused on similarities between Judaism and philosophies of East Asia, especially Confucianism and Shinto.