Micah Morgovsky, daughter of Joel and Marilyn Morgovsky, grew up in Lincroft. Her mother often performed in the Monmouth Civic Chorus annual stage musicals, where at the age of four, Micah joined her mother in Carousel. She went on to perform in numerous productions including Fiddler on the Roof, and she performed in all her high school stage productions as well as community theater productions at the Count Basie Theater.

The family joined Monmouth Reform Temple so that Micah could begin her Jewish studies with Rabbi Sally Priesand, America’s first ordained female Rabbi, who suggested that Micah should think about becoming a cantor. Micah attended Syracuse University and after going to Israel for her junior year study-abroad program, became determined to pursue the cantorate.

It was on her first day of cantorial school in Jerusalem that she learned that she was likely related to a famous cantor, Chazzan Yaakov Maragowsky. Better known as Zeidel Rovner in the US, his long life and career spanned the later part of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. She concludes that Jacob Samuel Maragowsky was her great-great-great-uncle!

Upon ordination, Cantor Micah served as Cantor and Director of Religious Education at North Country Reform Temple in Glen Cove, Long Island. In 2008, she became the Cantor at Temple Sinai in Stamford, CT, where she continues to serve.

Cantor Morgovsky will be accompanied by Barbara Orwick who earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Manhattanville College and has accompanied various area schools, churches, community choirs, singers, instrumentalists, and theater organizations. She served the Jewish Family Congregation in South Salem, NY, for almost 25 years, and currently serves the Community Synagogue of Rye for the High Holy Days, B’nai mitzvah, and other musical services.

Micah is beyond delighted to be returning to New Jersey to share her musical journey with Monmouth County’s Jewish community.