Temple Beth Ahm has new spiritual leader

Rabbi Lisa Malik, Ph.D. Lisa Weiss, president of Temple Beth Ahm, Aberdeen, announced that Rabbi Lisa Malik, Ph.D., will become the synagogue’s next spiritual leader. Rabbi Malik will begin leading Shabbat services on Aug. 5.

The rabbinate is a third career for Rabbi Malik. After being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and graduating summa cum laude with distinction from the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business, she worked as a marketing associate and assistant brand manager at Procter & Gamble and as an account executive at Foote, Cone & Belding advertising agency.

While in San Francisco, Rabbi Malik began to work in the Jewish community, first as the education director of Congregation Beth Sholom and then as a freelance education consultant and researcher. She received her doctorate in Jewish education from Stanford University and her rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she was awarded the Crown Fellowship, the Rabbi Morris Silverman Prize in Liturgy, the Raymond MarkWintrob Memorial Prize in Bible and History, the Dr. Michael Higger Prize in Talmudic Studies, and the CyrusAdler Prize as the outstanding student in her graduating class of rabbinical school. She was ordained in 2004.

Rabbi Malik is married to Adi Wyner, professor of Statistics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The Malik-Wyners have three children.