Rabbi Leana Moritt, a daughter of former shul member R. Skye Moritt of Magliaso, Switzerland, and the late Fred G. Moritt, was married July 7 at Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield, NJ, to Rabbi Steven Carter Kushner. Rabbi Moritt is the spiritual leader at Temple Beth-El of Jersey City, and vice president of the New Jersey-West Hudson Valley Association of Reform Rabbis. Rabbi Kushner is the emeritus rabbi at Temple Ner Tamid.

According to an announcement in The New York Times, the couple met in 2009 over Torah study at a diner in Little Falls, NJ, when a mutual friend invited Rabbi Moritt to join an ongoing Torah study group in which Rabbi Kushner was, and still is, a member.

Many Congregation Tifereth Israel members will remember Rabbi Moritt who, thanks to her mother’s encouragement, often substituted for vacationing rabbis at our shul, offering thoughtful interpretations of scripture and applications to Jewish life.