Rabbi Melanie Aron has been serving Congregation Shir Hadash of Los Gatos since July 1990. Ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1981, Rabbi Aron served congregations in Morristown, New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York before coming to California. Rabbi Aron is a board member of The American Leadership Forum – Silicon Valley and the Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley, and serves on the Project Advisory Board of the Elder Abuse Initiative of Santa Clara County. She has served on the national board of the Union for Reform Judaism as the representative of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and as chair of the Committee on Adult Jewish Learning and as Chair of the Pacific Central West region of the World Union for Progressive Judaism / Association of Reform Zionists of America.