AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם

Juliet Estrella & Mark SpencerJuliet and I met during our first week at I-House, in August 1988. We enjoyed the many activities and made many friends at I-House. We got married in 1996 in Berkeley, with many of our I-House friends in attendance. Our wedding ceremony blended together Filipino, Catholic and Jewish traditions, which we continue to this day. We happily count ourselves among the many cross-cultural couples of I-House, and we enjoy our visits back to Cal and I-House!

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.