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Deli Blues in the Delta


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This is the season for communal meals - Easter Dinners and Passover
Seders. In Mississippi Delta town of Greenville, members of the
synagogue, Hebrew Union, have been hosting a community luncheon -
called the deli lunch - for the past 130 years. But in the past four
decades, the Jewish population there has been dwindling, and now
they're wondering if there are going to be enough people to hold
luncheons in the future.
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MPR - My Public RadioBy Philip L. Graitcer