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Saving Face

Saving Face

There’s that picture from the latest high school party where you’re hanging out with friends and holding a beer … the comment posted about your most recent date with the boy in your class … the mean statement made about the girl you sit next to in science. It’s all posted on your private Facebook page — to be viewed only by your “friends.”

At least that’s what you think. While you’re busy navigating this popular social networking site, perhaps unbeknownst to you, acquaintances,…
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Death Penalty Advocates Frustrated

Death Penalty Advocates Frustrated

“On May 18, 1983, my mother and father, Rose and Irvin Bronstein, ages 75 and 78, were bound, gagged and repeatedly stabbed to death in their Baltimore City home. The killer sits on Death Row today. He was on parole at the time of the murders. This was not his first criminal act, nor his first murder. He committed his first murder on Easter Sunday, 1983, several weeks…
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Associated, Oheb Shalom, Denied Zoning Shifts

Associated, Oheb Shalom, Denied Zoning Shifts

The wait is over — at least for the next four years. Last week, the Baltimore County Council voted on hundreds of requests to rezone land that will guide the county’s master zoning map through 2012.

The Comprehensive Zoning Map Process began last fall and culminated with the County Council vote. The CZMP is held every four years, and anyone — individuals, associations, corporations, county agencies…
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Beth Tfiloh School Moving Mid-Year

Beth Tfiloh School Moving Mid-Year

As construction comes in ahead of schedule, Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School announced it will move its lower school in Glyndon to its Pikesville campus by the start of next year.

On Jan. 5, immediately following winter break, lower school students enrolled in the Glyndon school program will be relocated to a new 56,000-square-foot addition at 3300 Old Court Rd. Originally, the Pikesville campus facility was…
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TA Moves To Help Kids With Problems

TA Moves To Help Kids With Problems

School bells are ringing across Baltimore, but Talmudical Academy is starting off the 2008-2009 school year with a bang.

The 91-year-old institution in Pikesville is “changing its perspective,” according to Dr. Joel Pleeter, the school’s chairman of the board, and taking a more comprehensive approach to its student body.

TA will be the first yeshiva day school in Baltimore to hire a full-time elementary…
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