Jan Marie: Growing up split between both American and Filipino cultures and having married a Jewish man, I have come to the inevitable dilemma about how I want to raise my own child, who will be Jewish too.
בְנֵי־לֹ֣וט
"For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man" (New International Version, Matthew 24:27 Multilingual).
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.