Marlene Laba is Executive Assistant to Rabbi Adam Cutler, Senior Administrative Assistant, Education, Family Programming and Youth Departments and Adult Education Coordinator arranging many of Beth Tzedec’s lectures, program series and classes. She worked with several rabbis during her 22+ years at the synagogue in addition to being liaison to a number of committees. During the time she assisted Rabbi Tanenbaum, she helped develop the Adult Education Program booklet now known as the yearly Program Guide.

Marlene’s background is in corporate identity and public relations in the U.S., and shopping centre management (Yorkdale, Scarborough Town Centre), commercial property management and human resources in Toronto.

Marlene is a big movie fan and in her spare time enjoys watching old movies from the 1940s and 1950s and listening to music from Broadway to pop and rock 'n' roll.