SIMCHAS
Engagement Reisman-Lowenthal
Vickie and Bruce Reisman of Atlanta announce the engagement of their daughter, Julia Alysse Reisman, to Daniel Gary Lowenthal, son of Suzanne and Stephen Phillips of Atlanta. Julia is the granddaughter of Shirley and Donald Reisman of Atlanta and the late Lillian and Noah Ginsberg. Danny is the grandson of Shirley and Sidney Silvers of Bayside in New York. Julia holds a B.S. in nursing from the University of Texas and a master’s in nursing from Vanderbilt University. She is a pediatric nurse practitioner in San Francisco. Danny holds a B.B.A. in finance from the University of Georgia and an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia. He is a cloud solution specialist at Microsoft in San Francisco.
OBITUARIES
Ruth Aronson 98, Dunwoody
Ruth Katz Aronson, age 98, of Dunwoody passed away Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, at the Berman Commons assisted-living facility in Dunwoody. She was the oldest active member of Congregation B’nai Torah from 2007 to 2017. She was born April 16, 1919, in New York City, the only daughter of the late Carl David and Nettie Schoenbach Katz. Ruth received her bachelor of arts degree from Hunter College and was a retired elementary school teacher. She and her late husband, Moses Aronson, who passed away in 2002, relocated to the Orlando, Fla., area in 1965. Ruth remained in Orlando until 2007, when she moved to Atlanta to be closer to family. In Orlando, the Aronsons were longtime members of Congregation Ohev Shalom. Ruth was very active in the Jewish community as a life member of Hadassah, life member of B’nai B’rith Women, past president of Jewish War Veterans Ladies Auxiliary 759 and ORT. She was also a member of the COS Sisterhood, the JCC 39ers and the Couples Club. In the greater Orlando community she was a member of the Friends of the Orlando Library and the Orange County Historical Society. Ruth is survived by her son and daughter-in-law Wayne and Joan Aronson and granddaughters Nicole Aronson Silverman and Lindsey Aronson of Marietta, her son and daughter-in-law Joel and Roberta Aronson and grandson Michael of Natick, Mass., and her daughter, Helene Aronson of Brookline, Mass. A funeral service was held Sunday, Oct. 15, in the Pavilion at Ohev Shalom Cemetery, Orlando, with Rabbi Arnold Siegel officiating. Burial followed in the cemetery. Arrangements were entrusted to Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel, Orlando, 407-599-1180.
Barry Berman
OCTOBER 27 ▪ 2017
75, Sandy Springs
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Barry Lee Berman of Sandy Springs passed away Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017. He was 75 years old. Born in Baltimore on Oct. 9, 1942, Barry devoted his life to education and to his family. A graduate of Baltimore’s Polytechnic Institute in 1960 and Case Institute of Technology (which soon merged with Western Reserve University to form Case Western Reserve University) in 1964, Barry earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969. After being a physics professor at colleges in Kentucky and New York, where his first daughter, Brenna, was born, Barry became fascinated by computers and computer software, eventually spending a yearlong sabbatical studying the fast-growing, late-1970s trend. His passion for educational and personal computing and eventually the Internet, which continued throughout his life, soon prompted him to leave teaching for educational sales. He spent more than 30 years in the industry, working for