http://forward.com/articles/198758/ukraine-presidential-frontrunner-petro-poroshenko/?p=all let the conspiracy theories...begin!!!!!
Nu? If by 'half-Jewish' you mean he's practicing only half of the Jewish faith, which half might that be? But if you accept the matrilineal definition of who's a Jew, and he's to be considered a Jew by dint of possibly having had a Jewish father (however lapsed) anyway, Poroshenko's still as Gentile as my former barber, Alex Blumenthal, who, despite his name, had never seen the inside of a synagogue.or been in the same room with a copy of the Talmud. Like all those Russian atheists of Jewish descent who were active in the early Bolshevik movement, Poroshenko will be summarily damned by the Usual Suspects as a Bolshie elitist, no matter how well he performs. And if any policies he initiates turn out badly, it will be thought of as a direct consequence of his 'Jewishness', however tenuous his relationship to Judaism might actually be; because, as we're so often reminded by those same Usual Suspects: ANY and ALL genetic connection to Jewishness implies inherent, DNA-based, anti-'White Christian' animus. In some people's minds it was ever thus, Ronstar. On the plus side, there's fewer and fewer of them all the time.
Good....then he might be somewhat more interested in this option: Would you like to see the remains of Rabbi Nachman taken to Israel?
There is a significant degree of probability that I may be living near Toronto sometime in 2020 and if that comes to pass...... I do hope to meet with one or more Rabbi's to see if they would perhaps want the likes of a Gentile like me attending synagogue on a regular basis or not. People's Party of Canada national leadership race.