[9mm_fan]

Moon:

I am curious to know how things are for a Jew in Portugal, and whether the media is biased against Israel.

[tgs]

I like computer games as well. Especially RTS such as
Empire Earth
Starcraft Series
Warcraft Series
Total Annihilation
Age of Empires
Age of Empires: Rise of Rome
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
BattleRealms
soon to be...
Warcraft III
Age of Mythology
or possibly...
Rise of Nations

oops got a little off topic there

Interesting family history too. So I guess there are no sephardim to accompany me here? I feel left out

[Drugmachine]

I'm ashkenazi. Both parents from Poland.... from Lublin and Vilno. Still have family in Szczecin. Grandpa owns a fishing boat and a honey business. Have cousins all over the world.... what else can i say? I was born and live in Chicago. I'm 19.

[doctorzlo]

2nd generation American of mixed Belarussian, Polish, Irish, Italian, German ancestry. 3 grandparents born outside the US. Northern expat transplant to the American South East Baptist Bible Belt. Come from a long line of labor union organizing socialist progressives, activist lawyers, chemists and government employed scientists. Republicans think I'm a communist and communists think I'm a traitor. Mathematician and economist by training. Work at computer security. Becoming increasingly frustrated with Conservative Judaism. You can never be too radicalized in defense of Israel.

[Ifroham4]

It is facinating to see the heritage and interests of you all. As for me ...
My father's family came to the US as settlers in the Virginia colony and were freedom fighters and farmers. They were and have always been hard working working class people. There is not a Jew among them.

My mother's family is much more interesting. Her father's family were Irish laborers and farmers who came here during the potatoe blight. Her mother's father was a Jewish doctor who escaped to the US by "converting" to Catholicism which he abandoned (along with his American bride) after having several children. Her mother was a blue blood from Irish Catholic descent and raised the children as Catholics. It's funny though, somewhere deep inside Jewish blood cries out for Israel and her people.

Myself, I was raised Roman Catholic, was persuaded by the Baptists to forsake "the Heresy", was challenged by Pentecostals to find the reality of a relationship with G-d in place of religion, and was brought to the place of being "family" by Herman Weisberg. I remember Herman asking my name, couldn't have been more Irish. His only comment, "There's a lot of good Jews in Ireland." I am thankful for his open heart and encouraging word.

My home is the US, my heart is with the Jewish people.