AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם

Filipino Sabado

||Andrea and Mark Golden with their children Josh (9), Noah (3) and Bella (11).||
Mark Golden: The very first time she cooked for me she made chicken adobo. It was awesome.
Andrea Golden: We're trying to capture the spirit of Shabbat. It can be anything that brings our family together.
Mark Golden: Yah and we're so lucky because Andrea's always really trying to understand our culture and make our families come together through food, so she's a wonderful cook; she's willing to tackle anything. We're really blessed for that.
Andrea Golden: We're definitely blessed, yes.
Captain Nieves Fernandez, the only known Filipino female guerrilla leader and formerly a school teacher, shows Army Pvt. Andrew Lupiba how she used her long knife to silently kill Japanese soldiers during the Japanese occupation of Leyte Island. 
Pvt. Lupiba was a bellhop at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California before entering service. 
Photo taken by Stanley Troutman on November 7, 1944 at Mabuhay Las Piñas, Leyte Island, Philippines. 
Bonus: Original 1944 newspaper clipping about Ms. Fernandez.

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.