You Know You're A Yerushalmi When...

Erev Shabbath Qodesh Parashath Naso 5772


See if you can relate to any of the following….

12. You know you're a Yerushalmi if you've ever taken bus nos. 5, 9, 12, 16, 17, or 33.

11. You know you're a Yerushalmi if you regularly ride the Jerusalem Light Rail,and rave about how great it is.

10. You know you're a Yerushalmi if you emphatically refuse to ride the Jerusalem Light Rail, and rant about how awful it is.

9. You know you're a Yerushalmi when you know the difference between Qiriyath Yovel, Qiriyath Menahem, and Giv'ath Masso'a.  (They're not all just Qiriyath Yovel.)

8. You know you're a Yerushalmi when you can find your way around Nahla'oth, without getting lost!

7. You know you're a Yerushalmi if you know that the Nahalath Shiv'a neighborhood is called Nahalath Shiv'a.

6. You know you're a Yerushalmi if you don't live in Har-Nof, Rehaviah, Nahla'oth, Ma'aloth Dafenah, Qatamon, German Colony, or Baq'a.  (Of course, there are Yerushalmis in these neighborhoods, but…well, you know.)

5. You know you're a Yerushalmi if you've ever eaten at Leiberbaum's, Marziano's, Allo Teiman, the old Mervad HaQ'samim, Sushya on Betzalel Street, Tzidqiyahu's in Giv'ath Sha'ul, Eli's in Beis Yisro'el, anywhere in the Bukharim Quarter, or in Mahaneh Yehudah (sitting down, more than five times, and Aroma Café does NOT count!).

4. You know you're a Yerushalmi if you've ever gone to Shalom Falafel on Betzalel Street, ONLY to buy hilbeh or raw falafel dough.

3. You know you're a Yerushalmi if you hang out on Nissim Bechar-Beit Ya'akov Street, Ben-Sira Street, or in Talpiot, NOT Ben-Yehudah Street, Cats Square, or Emek Refa'im Street.

2. You know you're a Yerushalmi if your friends hold their weddings in Talpiot or Giv'ath Sha'ul, and NOT at the Great Synagogue.

...and the number one reason that you know you're a Yerushalmi is when...

1. ...when someone mentions an Anglo rabbi, expecting you to know who he is, and you have no idea who he's talking about.