Editing Pikesville, Maryland (section)

===Jewish community===
{{See also|History of the Jews in Baltimore}}
In the 19th and early 20th centuries Jewish immigrants to the Baltimore area first formed enclaves in East Baltimore not far from [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]] in neighborhoods such as [[Broadway East, Baltimore|Broadway East]], [[Jonestown, Baltimore|Jonestown]], [[Middle East, Baltimore|Middle East]] and [[Oliver, Baltimore|Oliver]]. After [[World War II]], the Jewish community moved outside of Baltimore City into Pikesville, a sleepy outpost on a major road that led to Western Maryland. During the Vietnam War, and exacerbated by riots in 1968, many Jewish businesses left northwestern Baltimore following this exodus.

Pikesville (and more recently its neighboring communities to the north, [[Owings Mills, Maryland|Owings Mills]] and [[Reisterstown, Maryland|Reisterstown]]) have been considered the center of the Baltimore area's Jewish community since the mid-1950s. Many of the region's largest and most established synagogues, Jewish schools, and [[kosher]] dining establishments are located in or near Pikesville.