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Pornography protestors bomb the site of shut-down Maven's Deli, owned by Penthouse columnist and Harvard civil libertarian Alan M. Dershowitz. They are featured on Nightline when Dershowitz sues them for $21,000 in leftover pastrami costs. But he reminds Ted Koppel, "I still defend their right to free expression...
...have been losing money on every sandwich we sell," said Dershowitz. Dershowitz said the partners of the deli had anticipated that Maven's would lose money shortly after opening, but they had not expected the restaurant to remain in the red for as long...
...Some of Maven's problems stem from its attempt to serve the Orthodox Jewish community. When it first opened last spring, Maven's did not serve on Friday nights and Saturdays in order to earn strict kosher certification. Maven's also hired a cook who had worked at Harvard Hillel...
Dershowitz explained that the owners opened Maven's "to provide a service to the [Jewish] community." but found that there just was not a large enough market in the area for the business to produce profits...
...Maven's co-owner Marcus S. Weiss, a Cambridge lawyer, said the partners were "still great believers in the Maven's concept" of providing kosher deli food, but he added that the owners were having trouble finding experienced deli operators...