AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
Rodel Rodis: The diaspora that has dispersed Jews to all parts of the world is similar to the diaspora that has driven Filipinos to the same four corners of the earth. And just as many Jews have seen it to be their responsibility to return back, or to some way give back, to their homeland by "making Aliyah", so too are we at this 3rd Global Filipino Networking Convention "making Aliyah" by coming back to the Philippines to seek effective ways and means to help our motherland.

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.