AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם

RUTH MARGALIT: For some Filipinos, the quest to assimilate into Israeli society has included marrying Israeli men.

RUTH MARGALIT: Gemma Gragasin with her employer, Ella Ben Yaacov.
RUTH MARGALITThere are many stories of Filipino caregivers who have converted to Judaism

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.