AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
Merissa Nathan Gerson: Arlene, a Filipino, met her Israeli man in the Philippines. “He was traveling, a photo-journalist. He likes to talk. His life was open at once to me,” she said. 
“So you fell in love?” I asked. 
“Yeah, more or less. It was the right age, the right time. We married two years ago in a civil wedding in the Philippines because we weren’t sure where we would live. 
“I don’t plan to convert,” she added. “I am not a practicing Catholic, but I don’t plan to be a practicing Jew either.”

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.