Irvine's Cast of Charachters: Rolecall

Ok, just thought I would list down here all the "types" of Jews we have at the Orthodox community in Irvine. Many people belong to both Chabad and the MO shul Beth Jacob (it was named Beth Jacob to create a link between the Beth Jacob in San Diego, and the Beth Jacob in Los Angeles. Although our first Torahs were given to us by Beth Jacob of Los Angeles, the connection between the shuls stops at the name)

In this list of types, I'm going to include some people who do not go to Beth Jacob or Chabad, however they live on one of the three "Jew streats" so are part of our community even if they don't go to shul. Such people will be marked with an *. In no particular order....

1. Rabbi of local Reform shul who sends his children to the Chabad school *
2. French Tunisian
3. Mother comes from blackhat family, father is BT
4. Mother and Father are both Converts
5. Obsesive compulsive BT
6. Chabadnics from Birth
7. Black hat FFB
8. RW Israelis who became BT after leaving Israel.
9. LW Israelis who became BT while in Israel.
10. Israelis who moved to Irvine because an Israeli company told them to.
11. Old persian guy who doesn't speak any english
12. Iranian Jews
13. Iraqi Jew- He insists on not being grouped with the persians
14. Left wing Israeli peace nut, who I just found out his son is working for the ministry of health in Rwanada *
15. Classic RW conservative from NY who finds MO the closest thing on the west coast.
16. YU graduates
17. People who think YU is the devil (too much jewishness)
18. South African Bagels and Kugels (30% of the shul)
19. South Africans who tried to get away from the Kugels (21% of the shul)
20. BT Chasids (Chabad, Breslav, guys who like Kabbalah)
21. Guy who claims to be direct decendant of Rav Salevechik - calls Chabad a bunch of christians and has a brother who plays basketball in Israel profesionally.
22. People who were brought up Reform, and walked into our shul on accident one Rosh Hashana, because the parking lot at the Reform shul was full.
23. We have always had one homeless guy living in our shul. Since I can remember, we have had 3 overall, but none of them were ever at the same time. (recently saw one of them at 613 mitzvah store in L.A., he has a job and house and everything now)
24. BBYO and AZA teanagers who seem to think loving Israel means smoking a Hukah* (they have a giant Israeli flag in thier garage)
25. Israelis who I only ever see at social events*
26. Rabbis - We have had at the most 6 living in Irvine at any one time. I miss those days.

26 is a good number of "divisions" to have. Specially since one of my goals is to have people be more open about who they include in their "community"