AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם

||Haifa Works, Tel Aviv Plays, Jerusalem Prays||


SUSAN HATTIS ROLEF: I was wondering whether life in Israel wouldn’t be more pleasant and tolerable if the Haifa model were the predominant one. Though the population make-up of Haifa is probably still tilted in the secular-old timer-Ashkenazi direction, it is undoubtedly much more balanced than that of Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, as far as the make-up of the general Israeli population is concerned.

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.