Lieberman

On April 15, 2004, LEON LIEBERMAN, beloved husband of Audrey Lieberman (nee Redding), beloved father of Brian Lieberman of Westminster, MD and Lynn Gould of Egg Harbor, NJ, devoted father-in-law of Jay Gould, devoted brother of Beverly Kirsch, Yonnie Rubin and Sidney Lieberman. Dear brother-in-law of Ann Redding and Jerry Rubin. Loving grandfather of Shawn Campbell, Meghann Lieberman, Eric Lieberman, Robert, Christopher and James Gould Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS INC., 8900 Reisterstown Rd. at Mt. Wilson Lane, on Wednesday, April 21 at 11 A.M. Interment Maryland Veterans Cemetery, Garrison Forest Rd. In lieu of flowers contributions may be directed to Greater Baltimore Unit of the American Cancer Society, PO Box 43025 (21236-0025)

The Johns Hopkins University has named Robert C. Lieberman, an interim dean at Columbia University and an expert on American politics, to its No. 2 academic spot: provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. He will take the post July 1, succeeding Lloyd B. Minor, who left last year to become dean of Stanford University's School of Medicine. "Rob brings a scholarly record and leadership experience, clearly marked with the 'excellence gene,' that will make him a wonderful partner for me and the university's senior leadership team as we work to advance our mission," Hopkins' President Ronald J. Daniels said in a statement.

On Monday, May 30, 2005, NUCHAL "NICKY" LIEBERMAN; beloved sister of Rochelle Rose of Pikesville, MD and Herman Lieberman of Memphis, TN; sister-in-law of Donald Rose and Dora Lieberman. Services and interment will be held on Wednesday, June 1, 3 P.M. at Hebrew Young Men Cemetery - 5800 Windsor Mill Road. Please omit flowers. Memorial contributions in her memory may be directed to Jewish Convalescent and Nursing Home, 7920 Scotts Level Road (21208). Arrangements by Sol Levinson and Bros.

After 24 years in the U.S. Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the first and only Jewish politician nominated to a national major party ticket, in 2000, had some advice to his colleagues in a farewell speech Wednesday on the Senate floor. To break the impasse that has paralyzed the body in recent years, Mr. Lieberman preached: "It requires reaching across the aisle and finding partners from the opposite party. That is what is desperately needed in Washington now. " In the last years of his long Senate tenure, it certainly could be said that Joe Lieberman practiced what he preached.

WHAT THIS COUNTRY needs is a George W. Bush-Joe Lieberman alliance. Not an alliance of political convenience but of national necessity. After losing the vice presidency and retaining his seat in the evenly divided Senate, Mr. Lieberman emerges as the nation's leading centrist Democrat. He may be the key man Mr. Bush has to deal with if the president-elect hopes to get anything done in Congress. Before the campaign, it would have been logical to consider Al Gore, the Democratic Party's titular leader, as a shoo-in for this role.

LEBANON, N.H. - In presidential primaries, native sons are supposed to have an advantage when they run in or near their home base. It worked for John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts in the New Hampshire primary in 1960 and even (just barely) for Edmund S. Muskie of Maine there in 1972. So Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut ought to be riding high approaching the same primary in January. Except there is the inconvenient fact that two other New Englanders, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and former Gov. Howard Dean of Vermont, are also running hard here for the 2004 Democratic nomination.

WASHINGTON -- After the 1960 election, President-elect John Kennedy repaired to the family estate in Palm Beach, Fla. to begin assembling a government. He met there with Connecticut Gov. Abraham Ribicoff. Kennedy offered him the position of attorney general. Ribicoff declined, saying America was not ready for a Jew in that position, particularly with a civil rights crisis simmering. He instead became secretary of health, education and welfare. Robert Kennedy became attorney general, with radiating consequences.

Mignon N. Lieberman, who donated works of art to Towson University as a memorial to her two sons, died in her sleep July 1 at her Phoenix, Ariz., home. The former Mount Washington resident was 93. Mignon Newman was born in Baltimore and was a 1931 Western High School graduate. She received a degree at what is now Towson University, where she met her future husband, Sidney Lieberman, a dentist. After their 1938 marriage, they worked together at his Eutaw Place dental practice, which moved to Park Heights Avenue in 1955.

Annette Lieberman, a pioneering publicist for Planned Parenthood in the days when Baltimore papers wouldn't print the phrase "birth control," died of a heart attack Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital.Mrs. Lieberman, a cancer patient for the past five years, was 76."She was a type-A, double-plus personality, always going, on the phone constantly," said her son Reform Rabbi Elias Lieberman of Falmouth, Mass. "She had reserves of energy that I don't have a clue where they came from."During her long years in the public eye, "Netsie" Lieberman was TTC president of the Central Scholarship Bureau, organized video archives of Holocaust remembrances, was development officer for the Park School and did public relations for local Jewish groups.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, who rose to national prominence as the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee, appears likely to face a serious primary challenge this year that could measure the depth of his party's discontent over the Iraq war. Ned Lamont, a businessman and war critic, publicly began seeking support this month for a run against Lieberman in the state's August nominating contest. Lamont is attracting interest largely because of Democratic grumbling - in Connecticut and nationally - about Lieberman's unflinching support of President Bush's policies in Iraq.

FRISCO, Texas — Someone told the girl about Rucker Park in Harlem, told her that all the best players gathered there for pickup games. Harlem was two train rides and a long walk from her neighborhood in Queens, but she had fallen in love with basketball — shooting hoops in the playground each afternoon until dark — and nothing could keep her from having a look. Taking money from her mother's purse, she announced that she was headed for the park, neglecting to mention which park.

T o a self-described "old feminist" such as Hadassah Lieberman, the recent blog-inspired attack against her - all related to husband Joe Lieberman's obstruction of the Democrats' health care agenda - has been a surreal mix of "McCarthyism" and a "snowball fight on the playground." Actually, ambush is a better word. Blogger Jane Hamsher, a movie producer ("Natural Born Killers") and political activist, went after Mrs. Lieberman as Senator Lieberman was refusing to vote for a health care reform bill that included expanding Medicare to people as young as 55. Ms. Hamsher claimed that because Mrs. Lieberman was a lobbyist and had worked for the pharmaceutical industry, she should be fired from her position as global ambassador for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity.

Teacher wants acid thrown on attackers KANDAHAR, Afghanistan : A 23-year-old teacher burned in an acid attack on 15 schoolgirls and instructors wants the Afghan government to throw acid on her attackers and then hang them. Kandahar's governor said yesterday that authorities had arrested 10 alleged Taliban militants in the Nov. 12 attack and that several had confessed to taking part. Gov. Rahmatullah Raufi said the men would be tried in open court, a pledge that pleased Nuskaal, a first-year math teacher who suffered acid burns on her shoulders.

WASHINGTON - When Sen. Joe Lieberman broke from his longtime Democratic allegiance to back Republican John McCain for president, some rank-and-file Democrats were angry. And after Lieberman spoke at the Republican National Convention and criticized Barack Obama, they were practically apoplectic. Once Obama won and Democrats cemented their grip on Congress, the talk quickly turned to punishing the senator from Connecticut, who just eight years ago was the Democratic nominee for vice president.

On Satudary August 18, 2007, RHONA LIEBERMAN (nee Tamres); beloved mother of Faith Smith, Marilyn Jacoby both of Baltimore, Allen Lieberman of Jackson, MS and Stacie Prince of Hoover, AL; dear mother-in-law of Jason Smith, Sr, Tonya Lieberman and Todd Prince; devoted sister of Shirley Talles of Baltimore, MD and the late Florine Lafferman, also survived by eleven loving grandchildren and one loving great-grandchild. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS.', INC., 8900 Reisterstown Rd, at Mt. Wilson Lane on Tuesday August 21 at 12 Noon.

Mignon N. Lieberman, who donated works of art to Towson University as a memorial to her two sons, died in her sleep July 1 at her Phoenix, Ariz., home. The former Mount Washington resident was 93. Mignon Newman was born in Baltimore and was a 1931 Western High School graduate. She received a degree at what is now Towson University, where she met her future husband, Sidney Lieberman, a dentist. After their 1938 marriage, they worked together at his Eutaw Place dental practice, which moved to Park Heights Avenue in 1955.

America owes a twisted debt of gratitude to Lee Alcorn, who lost his job as president of the Dallas NAACP last week by bringing mindlessness and bigotry out of the shadows, where the country can examine it instead of pretending we have outgrown it. Everybody braced for its arrival from the moment Joseph I. Lieberman became a candidate for vice president, and Alcorn was the first to deliver it in public. Thank you and, while we're at it, mazel tov. Poor Lieberman. Before Alcorn's outburst, he said he expected no bigotry in this campaign.