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For 130 years, Jews in Greenville, Mississippi, have been hosting a commmunity corned beef lunch for the community. Now there are barely enough Jews remaining in Greenville to organize it, so Catholics, Presbyterians, and Methodists are pitching in to put it on.
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For 130 years, Jews in Greenville, Mississippi, have been hosting a commmunity corned beef lunch for the community. Now there are barely enough Jews remaining in Greenville to organize it, so Catholics, Presbyterians, and Methodists are pitching in to put it on.
Broadcast History
Vox Tablet, April, 2011 (podcast) [longer version]
AARP Primetime, April 2011
Mississippi Public Radio, Mississippi Morning, April, 2011
Transcript
This is a "non-narrated" story.
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:This is the season for communal meals - Easter Dinners and Passover
Seders. In Mississippi Delta town of Greenville, members of the
synagogue, Hebrew Union Congregation, 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.
Additional Credits
Another longer version of this story originally aired on Vox Tablet podcast. That version was co-produced by Philip Graitcer and Julie Subrin.
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