AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
||(From left) Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario and Czech Ambassador Josef Rychtar with Israeli Ambassador Menashe Bar-On and wife Eti.

Photos by Ramon Joseph J. Ruiz||

Babe Romualdez: The Jewish community will never forget that during the time of President Manuel L. Quezon, the Philippines opened its doors to more than a thousand German and Austrian Jews 
Babe Romualdez: In 1947, the Philippines was the only Asian country that voted for the creation of the State of Israel.
CECILE CAGUINGIN OCHOA: A rousing applause from some 300 viewers met the pre-screening of Vargas’ ‘Documented’ last May 7, aptly presented at the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in West L.A. (In 1937, the Philippines welcomed to the country more than 1,300 Jewish people fleeing the Holocaust. Then President Manuel Quezon opened the Philippines without any question or paper required to the persecuted people).
Dicatat oleh בְּשֵם יְהוָֹה וְיֵשׁוּעַ וְרוחַ מִרְיָם di 8:52:00 PG
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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.