Love has no real boundaries or borders, as this couple discovered.

Edward Rosenblatt grew up in the South Bronx, and after serving in the Army during the Korean War and attending City College, he began working at his father’s clothing store in the East Bronx. "The neighborhood was about 98 percent Jewish," Ed recalls. "And the store was right across the street from Jake the Pickle Man, a pretty famous guy in those parts." Even after the neighborhood changed, the family kept the business running and Ed became partners with his father.

This Cliffside Park couple’s shared faith led them to move to Israel — not once, but twice.

Both Sol Borodkin and Thelma Litwak were born and raised in Brooklyn, he in Crown Heights, she in Brownsville.

"He used to kid me that he married beneath him because he was from a better neighborhood," Thelma says with a grin. "But I’d always come back by reminding him that I was a Levi, while he was only an Israel."

On Thursday, Aug. 30, Jake Freedman, 25 and Tovah Schafer, 23 will be married in an Orthodox ceremony in Teaneck. Less than two years ago, neither one of them could have imagined making the choices that led them to each other, nor to the kind of home they now plan to build. As their wedding day approaches, this is the story of the long and sometimes winding road that led them to the chuppah:

Peter Adler came to America from Germany as an 8-year-old boy, after his widowed mother managed to get the family, which included his brother Frank, out of Nazi Germany. She settled with her sons in New York’s Washington Heights. When his mother remarried, the family moved to Forest Hills, Queens.

Ruth Rose grew up in Rego Park, just across Queens Boulevard from Forest Hills.

Annice Miller Schear has spent most of her life in Ohio — growing up in Cleveland, going to the University in Cincinnati, and working as a music teacher. But for five summers, from the time she was 14, she’d attended Kutz Camp in Warwick, N.Y.

"They’d started up a teacher education program to train Jewish youth to be teachers in synagogues," Annice explains. "I was part of the group chosen to go there from Cleveland. It was an amazing place, all of us living in the same village, studying Judaism, and learning Hebrew, as well singing and dance leading." Although she had to wait until she was two years older to assist at her synagogue, Annice eventually taught music and singing there. "One reason I’m a certified music teacher today is because of Kutz Camp."