AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
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Catch-Up Not Just Coffee: A Filipino American chess enthusiast comes up with an idea and opens communications with the Israeli Chess Federation. He gets together with a Ukrainian-Canadian teacher/chess tournament director and puts a team together. Pretty soon a harmonious multi-cultural clash of the minds for national pride is on! The Inland Empire team is made up of local chess experts and tournament players, one in dreadlocks, another from India, who have teamed up with several outstanding Asian-American world class youth players to battle with Israel’s best, a team made up of master level Jewish players and world class Jewish youth champions.

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.