AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם

Yovic Yee: Manila allotted as many as 10,000 visas for Jewish refugees and even considered raising the number to 100,000.

Ephraim Ben Matityau: In all that darkness, a ray of hope came unexpectedly from a remote place of the world: the Philippines

Sharon Delmendo: On Nov. 19, 1938, over 2,000 Manila residents held an indignation rally against Kristallnacht

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.