The sweep of family history across the generations
Two of the Ruby offspring went back to Israel for significant periods.
Twyla Ariel Eilertsen Ruby was born on August 7, 1985
Stan maintained correspondence with his closest high school and Army buddies, several of whom went on to prominent careers.
In 1955, Helga led a committee of parents to open a preschool in Vestal.
Most of what we discovered about Rabbi Spektor's genealogy was entirely true. All but the myth of our family's connection to it
Home from the war, Stan Ruby was a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. Helga Ringel was a smart, pretty war refugee from Berlin
Joan Ruby married Milton Felenstein. Their life and family in Rockville Centre.
First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.
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.