Rabbi Malik

Rabbi Lisa Malik was ordained as a Conservative rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.  Since August, 2004, she has been serving as the rabbi of Suburban Jewish Community Center Bnai Aaron.  In 2006, Rabbi Malik was one of 18 rabbis around the country chosen to participate in the highly selective STAR (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal) PEER Executive Leadership Program that is funded by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.  This program enabled Rabbi Malik to study for an entire year with other rabbis from across the denominations, under the tutelage of world-renowned rabbinic mentors, sociologists, and organizational studies experts.  She continues to get together with her STAR PEER rabbinic colleagues at an annual alumni conference.

At the Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi Malik was a Crown Fellow who received a scholarship that paid for her first few years of rabbinical school tuition.  Upon graduating from JTS, she was the recipient of the prestigious Bernard and Sydell Citron Memorial Prize and was selected by the faculty as the top student of the graduating class.  Before going to rabbinical school, she worked in the field of Jewish education as the Education Director of Congregation Beth Sholom in San Francisco, CA and as a Jewish education consultant and researcher for the Taub Foundation and for the organization formerly known as the Council of Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE) of the Mandel Foundation.  She conducted research and provided guidance to various national and regional Jewish organizations around the country in the areas of strategic planning, synagogue change, curriculum development, and Jewish family education.

Rabbi Malik received her Ph.D. in Jewish Education Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University, a program that was funded by a grant from the Wexner Foundation. She is also a graduate of the Wharton Business School and the University of Pennsylvania.  Growing up in Brooklyn, she was the valedictorian of the Yeshivah of Flatbush.

Rabbi Malik's greatest joys are her husband, Cantor Professor Adi Wyner, her 12-year old son, Ariel, her 11-year old daughter, Eva, and her 6-year old daughter, Rivkah-Gina. Both Ariel and Eva will celebrate becoming Bnai Mitzvah in 2009.