A Wisconsin group of gun rights advocates took what many consider a cheap shot at two Maryland lawmakers recently with a flier that referred to the legislators as “Bagel Brain Jews.”

The flier was mailed to homes in Montgomery County and included photographs of Sen. Brian E. Frosh…
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Overall crime in the Owings Mills-Pikesville-Reisters- town areas continued dropping last year, as did all such activities throughout Baltimore County, according to the recently released Baltimore County Police Year End Crime Report 2009.

In Precinct 3 (which covers Owings Mills and Reisterstown), overall crime dropped 11.1 one percent.…
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A pair of Jewish brothers who live in the Baltimore metropolitan area won a $115,000 settlement from a Texas-based human resources firm in a religion-based harassment case, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced last week.

While working at an office in Edgewood, Scott and Joey Jacobson alleged…
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Shortly before Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg delivered his Shabbat sermon during his “tryout weekend” in late January at Beth Am Synagogue, a worshipper fainted suddenly.

But Julian L. Lapides, the Reservoir Hill congregation’s president, remembers being highly impressed with the rabbi’s composure and poise during the unnerving…
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