Nachman

On March 13, 2003, RUTH NACHMAN (nee Kleeman), beloved wife of the late Franklin E. Nachman. Dear sister of Irma Friedenberg, dear sister-in-law of Lester Friedenberg. Beloved aunt of Rick and Debbie Friedenberg, Deborah and Michael Healy and the late Felicia Scholl, dear great-aunt of Eva William, Michael and Samantha Friedenberg, Maitlyn, Tannen, Patrick and Joshua Healy. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS., INC, 8900 Reisterstown Rd. at Mt. Wilson La. on Friday, March 14 at 2 P.M. Interment Har Sinai Congregation Cemetery, Erdman Ave. and Edison Hwy. Please omit flowers.

Suddenly on February 18, 2005, CRAIG R., beloved son of Maria A. Morris, and Boyd H. Morris and his wife Brenda; devoted grandson of William Curley; devoted brother of Jerry and Angela Bates, and Mark Morris; also survived by many other relatives and friends. Family will receive friends at the family owned and operated Mc CULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME P.A., 237 E. Patapsco Ave. (Brooklyn) on Monday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M., where Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday at 11 A.M. Interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

On Friday, June 18, 2004, HARRIET L. NACHMAN; loving sister of Frank H. Nachman of Baltimore, MD and the late Mina Liss; beloved sister-in-law of Bobbie Nachman; devoted aunt of The Honorable Marc H. Nachman, Nancy Liss and Frank Liss; devoted great-aunt of Sara and Sam Nachman, David and Devon Liss. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS., INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road, at Mt. Wilson Lane, on Tuesday, June 22 at 10 A.M. Interment Oheb Shalom Congregation Cemetery, 6130 O'Donnell Street. Please omit flowers.

Nice Big American Baby By Judy Budnitz. Alfred A. Knopf, 320 pages, $23. It's Judy Budnitz' world, and we are all just visitors. Or so it seems when reading the fiction of this provocative writer, whose work may remind one a bit of Aimee Bender here, a touch of George Saunders there, but is, in the end, entirely original. Budnitz' new story collection serves up the same potent stew of surrealism, comedy and horror that she concocted in her first collection, Flying Leap, and in a novel, If I Told You Once.

Guts. Nerve. Chutzpah.Whatever you want to call it, Ron Nachman has it.After all, it takes more than a little brass to visit a foreign nation in search of support, while at the same time heaping criticism on some residents of that nation.That's what Nachman, the mayor of a Jewish town on the Israeli West Bank, did during an impassioned and sometimes rambling 75-minute address last night at Temple Oheb Shalom in Pikesville.About 50 people attended the event, which was sponsored by the Zionist Organization of America-Baltimore District and the Israel Committee and the Brotherhood of Oheb Shalom.

Ruth Nachman, who as owner of a Roland Park gift shop made sure her customers never gave the same Christmas present two years in a row, died Thursday of Alzheimer's disease at Arden Court in Pikesville. The former Village of Cross Keys resident was 82. For more than 40 years, she owned Gundy's, a gift shop whose shelves she stocked with wares she collected on her extensive buying trips. She once described her gifts' range as "from weddings through babies." Born Ruth Kleeman in Nuremburg, Germany, where she was educated, she fled Germany as Adolf Hitler began to persecute Jews.

Suddenly on February 18, 2005, CRAIG R., beloved son of Maria A. Morris, and Boyd H. Morris and his wife Brenda; devoted grandson of William Curley; devoted brother of Jerry and Angela Bates, and Mark Morris; also survived by many other relatives and friends. Family will receive friends at the family owned and operated Mc CULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME P.A., 237 E. Patapsco Ave. (Brooklyn) on Monday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M., where Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday at 11 A.M. Interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

On Wednesday, June 2, 2004, BETTY RAFFEL (nee Hornstein); loving wife of Stanley Raffel; beloved mother of Barbara Raffel of Springfield, VA and Janet Raffel of Owings Mills, MD and the late Michael Barry Raffel; loving grandmother of Samuel Nachman and Sara Nachman. Services at Sol Levinson and Bros, Inc., 8900 Reisterstown Road, at Mount Wilson Lane on Friday, June 4 at 10 A.M. Interment Bnai Israel Congregation Cemetery, 3701 Southern Avenue. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be directed to The National Parkinson Foundation, 1501 N.W. 9th Avenue, Bob Hope Road, Miami, FL 33136.

TV talk-show legend Phil Donahue said he knows his ratings have to turn around soon if his comeback on MSNBC is going to last. "If we don't make noise in six months, it's going to be hard for me to tell my family that I was treated unfairly," Donahue said. Donahue's highly publicized 8 p.m. show is off to a sluggish start in its first six weeks, drawing about half the viewers watching CNN's new entry in the time period, Connie Chung Tonight. Last week, his show averaged 365,000 viewers to Chung's 686,000, according to Nielsen Media Research.

For Kimberly Komrad, a cantor at the conservative Temple Emmanuel in Randallstown, the perfect gift yesterday turned out to be a computer program that allows her word processor to type out Hebrew characters from right to left.Her husband found the program for her at the third annual Baltimore-Washington Jewish Food & Life Expo, held yesterday at the state fairgrounds in Timonium. The program's publisher, the New Jersey-based Kabbalah Software Co., was one of many exhibitors at the event."I think it's going to be very, very helpful," said Mrs. Komrad, who is finishing her fifth-year thesis at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

Alyson Nachman's boys couldn't wait for the man in the green and white grocery truck to pull up to their Owings Mills house - and neither could she. Among the first in the Baltimore area to order her groceries over the Internet from a company called Peapod by Giant, Nachman stood by as the driver brought red peppers, milk and other everyday supplies to her kitchen counter. Instead of tearing through the aisles of a local Giant, sons Jason, 4, and Alex, 2, quietly ogled the truck and the neat green totes full of groceries.

On Friday, June 18, 2004, HARRIET L. NACHMAN; loving sister of Frank H. Nachman of Baltimore, MD and the late Mina Liss; beloved sister-in-law of Bobbie Nachman; devoted aunt of The Honorable Marc H. Nachman, Nancy Liss and Frank Liss; devoted great-aunt of Sara and Sam Nachman, David and Devon Liss. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS., INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road, at Mt. Wilson Lane, on Tuesday, June 22 at 10 A.M. Interment Oheb Shalom Congregation Cemetery, 6130 O'Donnell Street. Please omit flowers.

On Wednesday, June 2, 2004, BETTY RAFFEL (nee Hornstein); loving wife of Stanley Raffel; beloved mother of Barbara Raffel of Springfield, VA and Janet Raffel of Owings Mills, MD and the late Michael Barry Raffel; loving grandmother of Samuel Nachman and Sara Nachman. Services at Sol Levinson and Bros, Inc., 8900 Reisterstown Road, at Mount Wilson Lane on Friday, June 4 at 10 A.M. Interment Bnai Israel Congregation Cemetery, 3701 Southern Avenue. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be directed to The National Parkinson Foundation, 1501 N.W. 9th Avenue, Bob Hope Road, Miami, FL 33136.

Ruth Nachman, who as owner of a Roland Park gift shop made sure her customers never gave the same Christmas present two years in a row, died Thursday of Alzheimer's disease at Arden Court in Pikesville. The former Village of Cross Keys resident was 82. For more than 40 years, she owned Gundy's, a gift shop whose shelves she stocked with wares she collected on her extensive buying trips. She once described her gifts' range as "from weddings through babies." Born Ruth Kleeman in Nuremburg, Germany, where she was educated, she fled Germany as Adolf Hitler began to persecute Jews.

On March 13, 2003, RUTH NACHMAN (nee Kleeman), beloved wife of the late Franklin E. Nachman. Dear sister of Irma Friedenberg, dear sister-in-law of Lester Friedenberg. Beloved aunt of Rick and Debbie Friedenberg, Deborah and Michael Healy and the late Felicia Scholl, dear great-aunt of Eva William, Michael and Samantha Friedenberg, Maitlyn, Tannen, Patrick and Joshua Healy. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS., INC, 8900 Reisterstown Rd. at Mt. Wilson La. on Friday, March 14 at 2 P.M. Interment Har Sinai Congregation Cemetery, Erdman Ave. and Edison Hwy. Please omit flowers.

TV talk-show legend Phil Donahue said he knows his ratings have to turn around soon if his comeback on MSNBC is going to last. "If we don't make noise in six months, it's going to be hard for me to tell my family that I was treated unfairly," Donahue said. Donahue's highly publicized 8 p.m. show is off to a sluggish start in its first six weeks, drawing about half the viewers watching CNN's new entry in the time period, Connie Chung Tonight. Last week, his show averaged 365,000 viewers to Chung's 686,000, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Alyson Nachman's boys couldn't wait for the man in the green and white grocery truck to pull up to their Owings Mills house - and neither could she. Among the first in the Baltimore area to order her groceries over the Internet from a company called Peapod by Giant, Nachman stood by as the driver brought red peppers, milk and other everyday supplies to her kitchen counter. Instead of tearing through the aisles of a local Giant, sons Jason, 4, and Alex, 2, quietly ogled the truck and the neat green totes full of groceries.

Nice Big American Baby By Judy Budnitz. Alfred A. Knopf, 320 pages, $23. It's Judy Budnitz' world, and we are all just visitors. Or so it seems when reading the fiction of this provocative writer, whose work may remind one a bit of Aimee Bender here, a touch of George Saunders there, but is, in the end, entirely original. Budnitz' new story collection serves up the same potent stew of surrealism, comedy and horror that she concocted in her first collection, Flying Leap, and in a novel, If I Told You Once.

For Kimberly Komrad, a cantor at the conservative Temple Emmanuel in Randallstown, the perfect gift yesterday turned out to be a computer program that allows her word processor to type out Hebrew characters from right to left.Her husband found the program for her at the third annual Baltimore-Washington Jewish Food & Life Expo, held yesterday at the state fairgrounds in Timonium. The program's publisher, the New Jersey-based Kabbalah Software Co., was one of many exhibitors at the event."I think it's going to be very, very helpful," said Mrs. Komrad, who is finishing her fifth-year thesis at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

Guts. Nerve. Chutzpah.Whatever you want to call it, Ron Nachman has it.After all, it takes more than a little brass to visit a foreign nation in search of support, while at the same time heaping criticism on some residents of that nation.That's what Nachman, the mayor of a Jewish town on the Israeli West Bank, did during an impassioned and sometimes rambling 75-minute address last night at Temple Oheb Shalom in Pikesville.About 50 people attended the event, which was sponsored by the Zionist Organization of America-Baltimore District and the Israel Committee and the Brotherhood of Oheb Shalom.