AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
Filipino Star News: Ernie Mac (left) is shown in an emotional embrace with Bes Mayer, 79 years old, one of the surviving Jewish refugees who escaped the Holocaust horrors in Germany during the Nazi regime and took refuge in the Philippines. Mayer was three years old when she and other German Jews landed in Manila in 1939. Mac and Mayer met after the showing of a documentary “An Open Door” last Nov. 23 at the Philippine American Community Center in Southfield. (Photo by Richard Talaban)

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.