Judith Rachel Wexler and Nicholas Chamberlain Stone are to be married July 21 at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Md. Cantor Rebecca W. Khitrik, the bride’s sister, is to officiate.
In September, the bride and groom are to begin at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is to be a postdoctoral fellow in life sciences, and he an assistant lecturer in physics.
Dr. Wexler, 33, is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in entomology, studying the evolution and development of insects, at the University of Maryland. She graduated from Tufts and received a doctoral degree in population biology from the University of California, Davis.
She is a daughter of Martha Greenberger Wexler and Yuli Wexler of Bethesda, Md. The bride’s father retired as a vice president for business development at Intelsat, a satellite company in Washington, and is now a director of HIAS, a Jewish organization in Silver Spring, Md., helping refugees worldwide. Her mother is an editor at National Public Radio in Washington.
Dr. Stone, 33, was until March a postdoctoral fellow at the Columbia University Astrophysics Laboratory, conducting research on black holes and the flares they produce, and now is conducting research in the same field as a visiting assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland. He graduated from Cornell and received a doctoral degree in astrophysics and astronomy from Harvard.
He is the son of Eve Ottenberg Stone and Peter H. Stone of Silver Spring. The groom’s mother is the author of “Dead in Iraq” and other novels, and retired as a librarian at both Montpelier Elementary School in Laurel, Md., and Hyattsville Elementary School in Hyattsville, Md. The groom’s father, a freelance investigative journalist, is the author of “Heist: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, His Republican Allies and the Buying of Washington.”
The couple met in 2016 at the wedding of a mutual friend in Comus, Md., which is in Montgomery County and near where the bride and groom both grew up.
