Our Leadership
Rabbi Melinda Zalma was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2003 and received her Masters in Midrash in 2005. She has been serving as rabbi and spiritual leader at Congregation Beth Mordecai in Perth Amboy since May of 2006. Before then, she was a Program Officer at the Jewish Outreach Institute, which does outreach to unaffiliated Jews and interfaith families through community collaboration.
Rabbi Zalma teaches classes on Midrash, Introduction to Judaism, and High Holiday preparation, among others and has represented the Jewish faith in various inter-religious settings. Rabbi Zalma is a member of the Metuchen Edison Area Interfaith Clergy Association. She has been a member of the Navy Chaplain Corps since 1999 and has just been selected for promotion to Lieutenant Commander in the Reserve Component of the Navy.
She is married to Adam and they have a three year old son, Nathan.
Cantor David Levine attended Temple University and following completion of cantorial training, continued on with private training under Cantor Noah Schall and then with Professor Shalom Altman of Gratz College.
Possessing a lyric tenor voice, Cantor Levine has, in addition to his religious duties, performed on the concert stage in both North and South America. He is a talented musician, a fluent music reader, and capable of arranging accompanying musical backgrounds. His studies have led him through exhaustive research into prayer music, its meaning and its history, resulting in an extensive knowledge of cantorial and congregational chants and singing.
Officers
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Immediate Past President:Â Larry Deutchman