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Jewish deli, Baltimore burgers and a circus come to Ocean City
People come back to Ocean City for the traditions — a favorite restaurant, beach spot or mini-golf course. For visitors looking to try something different, this season has a lot of new things to offer, whether you eat at the town's new (and only)...
Tags: Matzoh, Restaurants, American Eagle Outfitters Incorporated, Memorial Day, Amusement and Theme Parks
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Daily guide to fun -- and some new things to do in Ocean City
One of the joys of the beach is its consistency. The tide rises and falls without fail, the sun casts a glow over the water every morning and every night. But Ocean City, for all its constants, continually delivers fresh adventures. We've put together a...
Tags: Matzoh, Restaurants, Culture, Robin Williams, Memorial Day
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Benjamin Lipsitz, 94, Pikesville attorney who defended Bremer
Benjamin Lipsitz, whose commitment to the spirit and letter of the law led him to defend a would-be assassin, a Nazi sympathizer and a craven murderer during a career that spanned more than a half-century, died May 10. He was 94. "He was so...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Laws, U.S. Secret Service, Criminal Laws, Justice System
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Private Jewish schools in Baltimore to close
Two private Jewish schools in Baltimore will close at the end of the school year after plans for a new, combined school failed to get off the ground. Boards of the Day School at Baltimore Hebrew, a kindergarten through eighth grade school, and The...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Separation of Church and State
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Endangered Hopkins museum exhibit back on schedule, minus two pieces
An exhibit at the Johns Hopkins Evergreen House that was thrown into doubt this week is back on, but without two artworks at the crux of a dispute between the artist and the curator. The two large pieces in question — one depicting a cross, the...
Tags: Fine Artists, Martin Luther King Jr., Artists, Fells Point, Museums
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Discussion series tackles challenges of parenting
The necessity of a two-income family today often leaves parents scrambling for child care and juggling countless responsibilities. It is no wonder that young parents today may feel overwhelmed. There is good news, though, and a place to go to find some...Tags: Mother's Day, Electronics, Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs, Memorial Day
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Israel's critics ignore discrimination in the Arab and Muslim world
The article by Zainab Choudry and Saqib Ali on Israel's supposed discrimination against Arab-American and Muslim citizens is missing a big part of the story in the Arab and Muslim world ("Don't let Israel discriminate," April 30). Former Secretary of...
Tags: Islam, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Henry Kissinger, Israel, Saudi Arabia
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Firefighter laid to rest in service steeped in tradition
On a perfect spring day in Baltimore County, surrounded by hundreds of his brother and sister firefighters and mourned in prayers thousands of years old, a hero was laid to rest Sunday. Gene M. Kirchner, the 25-year-old Reisterstown volunteer...
Tags: Heroism, Culture, Kevin Kamenetz, Northwest Hospital, Reisterstown
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Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, Hopkins professor
Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, former professor and chairman of the Johns Hopkins University mathematics department whose escape from Nazi-occupied France became the subject of a children's book, died April 24 of heart failure at his Guilford residence. He was 83....
Tags: Teaching and Learning, French Literature, Colleges and Universities, Maitland, Nazi Party
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America is exceptional, and that includes the way we treat immigrants
Dear Scholar, It was wholly a pleasure to get your thoughts about the current debate over illegal immigrants and how to approach the nettlesome challenge they represent to us -- and we to them. It was good of you to rehearse some classical history for...
Tags: Egypt, Passover Seder, Slavery, Migration, Immigration
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Leon S. Idas
Leon Samuel Idas, who owned a commercial used clothing business and fought the German occupation of his native Greece during World War II, died of a cerebral ailment April 12 at his home in Lauderhill, Fla. He was 87 years old and formerly lived in Bolton...
Tags: Nazi Party, Rugby League, Dresses (clothing), Clothing, Accessories, and Shoes
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A beautiful work in a horrific setting
The most famous, roof-rattling passage in Giuseppe Verdi's "Requiem" describes the "day of wrath" for the guilty as they face their eternal fate: "How great will be the terror when the Judge comes who will smash everything completely … Whatever...
Tags: Culture, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Music, Nazi Party, PBS (tv network)
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