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The Kosher Top 10
Top Ten ways you know
you are from Jewish Seattle
by
Ilan
Sender
and Sharon Riemer
10.
You make havdalah on coffee as Starbucks is chamra demedina
9.
Why bother saying “morid hageshem”, it will rain anyway
8. You think that worldwide, Sephardim are ½ of the Jewish population –
and yet you’ve never met a Persian or Syrian
7. Your bris was done by “the Fastest Mohel in the West”
6. You can have any type of kosher food (Chinese, Thai, Indian) as long as
it is vegeterian
5. You look up in the sky and see angels, or Blue Angels, that is.
4. You anticipated pizza at Panini Grill with more intent than the coming
of Mashiach
3. Your last name is Maimon
2. For some reason, you associate davening at shul with visiting the sick
and helping the needy (i.e. Bikur Cholim
Machzikay-Hatdat, Separhic Bikur Cholim, Ezra Bessaroth)
1. You ponder if one could build a kosher sukkah on top of the Space
Needle
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From Nili
Schiffman of Portland, Oregon
The number 1 entry for the Top Ten of Jewish Portland (Oregon, of course!)
would be, "Everyone thinks you're from Seattle. (There are Jews in
Portland???!)"
From Jessica
Russak, Seattle, WA
You drank coffee for breakfast and lunch
in high school, but never from Starbucks because it was too
commercial.
-Everybody thinks your dad must work at
Microsoft or Boeing.
-When you were a kid, it was easy to
convince New Yorkers that you had cows and chickens in your backyard.
-More than one letter has barely gotten
to you because it's been addressed to: Seattle, Washington DC.
-You've been asked, a thousand times, if
you get a minyan in Seattle.
-"Highest suicide rate!" people say. "Grunge
capital!" people say. "Highest rain count per
year!" people say. (But guess what, this year, we're number 40 on
the rain list in the US...it drizzles for a half hour every day, but
the rest is just a myth.)
-You say you're living in NY now, but you know when you get married
that you're moving back home.
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