The sweep of family history across the generations
It was a signature moment of the turbulent 1960s. Walter, 18, and Dan, 15, were there in Chicago, working as messengers for the Eugene McCarthy campaign.
Machinist Dan Ruby and his team members envision a new future for Family History Machine
From civil rights to war resistance to arms control, Ruby family members embraced liberal social causes
Most of what we discovered about Rabbi Spektor's genealogy was entirely true. All but the myth of our family's connection to it
Out of the files of the U.S. Patent Office and into the peculiar subculture of corkscrew collectors
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.
Walter thought he had proved the family legend of descent from the celebrated Kovno Rav, Rabbi Yitchak Elchanon Spektor. Later facts emerged that suggested a more tenuous connection.