I am Mexican-American, Spanish Jew and North African Moor. I am only son of two sisters, my mom, 4 nephews,1 niece ,a grand niece and a grand nephew. I grew up in National City , born and raised in San Diego. I went to John A Otis elementary School, National City Junior High and Chula Vista Junior High.
I went to National City Adult school but graduated from Center City Adult Education Center for my CHigh School Proficiency Exam Certificate. I attended San Diego City College studied Theater, Singing, Music Theory, and took Modern Dance, Jazz Dance, French and Tagalog at Southwestern College including Business Administration and French at Mount San Jacinto College . I have been in the synagogue since age 27 since 16 my mom had told me we descended from Sephardic Jews or Spanish Jews of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions on both sides of my family Tree as well as the Moriscos.
They married cousins with cousins or other crypto Jewish families or they would intermarry with other Moriscos who are Moors forced to quit Islam an if there were no Jewish families left or relatives they would marry Moriscos and were told to pray toward the East toward Jerusalem and Mecca & Medina.
I write in Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish=Ladino or Spanyolit or djudeo or judezmo in Latin letters including the Arab Poem that I wrote .My European ancestors are the Basques, Catalans, Galicians ,Asturians, Leonese,French,Irish and Hungarians. I descend from the Native Americans such as the Apache, Cherokee ,Choctaw ,Papago ,Tarascan and Yaqui Indians but I have no one to practice or speak in the tribal languages so I can learn my ancestral tongues. I speak Mexican Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and American English; I am learning Arabic and Hebrew also I understand some Galician,Catalan, few other dialects from Northern Spain and southern France. I know some Basque. Right now I am in Adult School. I have had to fight against discrimination, Antisemitism, overcome a learning disability and a mental illness. I pray, go to synagogue, Mosque and Church with my Christian friends even though I am Jewish where they worship God you will find me.