AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
SheGives [w]ith reporting from Gabriel Sunshine: Here is a picture of Geraldine with kids at the evacuation center in Capiz. Despite the loss of their homes, their school, and in some cases of family members, they are nonetheless still able to smile.
Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine, Jewish community leader and Senior Counsel, Bracebridge Capital
Erica Brown, scholar and educator 
What does being Jewish look like? How can we create our own spiritual journeys? Erica will talk about life transitions and the way that Judaism anchors us in times of change, while Geraldine will walk us through her own inspiring transition from being Filipino to being Jewish to bringing the different parts of herself together when she returned to the Philippines after disaster to rebuild her hometown while rebuilding herself.

Walang ligaya sa lupa na hindi dinilig ng luha.

Filipino Proverb: There is no earthly bliss not watered by tears.

Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.