Ruth Shane is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. She has a B.A. in biology from Barnard College and a Master of Forest Science degree from The Yale School of the Environment (previously the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Science). She taught high school biology for many years at The Fieldston School in Riverdale, New York.
Ruth returned to Baltimore and joined the Biochemical Genetics Lab of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She moved across town to the Molecular Diagnostics Lab of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from which she retired in 2020. These were her day jobs.
When Ruth returned to Baltimore, she also joined Rabbi David Fohrman, as student and later as colleague, in his unique approach to Torah which he was developing at that time. She combined the intertextual Torah study of Eretz Israel scholars with Rabbi David’s insights and began teaching adult Tanach classes at Congregation Shomrei Emunah in Baltimore. These are now her day jobs.