Mitchel Malkus

Rabbi Mitchel Malkus has served as Head of School at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School of Greater Washington, D.C. since 2013. Previously he was Head of School of the Rabbi Jacob Pressman Academy of Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles, CA for twelve years. He has also served as Instructor of Jewish Education at the Wm. Davidson Graduate School, was Adjunct Faculty at the American Jewish University and Hebrew Union College-JIR Los Angeles, and taught Talmud and Jewish Philosophy at the Solomon Schechter High School of New York.

Rabbi Malkus was awarded the first Ed.D from the Wm. Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), where he also received Rabbinic Ordination and an MA in Judaic Studies. He pursued his BA in Political Science from Columbia University. He has studied at Yeshivat HaMivtar in Israel and at the Principals’ Institute of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Rabbi Malkus writes extensively on curriculum, instruction, and educational leadership. From 2004 to 2007 he was chair of the BJE Los Angeles Day School Principals Council and received the Milken Jewish Educator Award in 2009. Rabbi Malkus was a mentor at the Day School Leadership Training Institute (DSLTI), served on the editorial board of HaYidiyon, and had the privilege of being an alternate delegate at the World Zionist Congress in 2010.

Rabbi Malkus is currently Co-chair of the Advisory Board of the Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education (CASJE) located at George Washington University. He and his wife, Caryn Bunder Malkus, live in the greater Washington D.C. area, and their two children, Eitan and Coby, attend the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School.