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New initiative is looking to match volunteers with local Holocaust survivors and share meals together. Wonderful!— (((WJC))) (@WorldJewishCong) August 6, 2017
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i need plantains and i need them now— sheila (@_swagner3000) August 6, 2017
— itsJhoysieLove (@JhoyisLove) 2 de mayo de 2017
Israel celebrates it's 69th birthday... pic.twitter.com/GfnTXgThL3— Embahada ng Israel (@IsraelinPH) 2 de mayo de 2017
Yom Haatzmaut 2017! 🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/XvQAGDgF3v— Alfa Grace Cor. (@alfarrific) 1 de mayo de 2017
L'chaim🍻🎉 pic.twitter.com/pyIVBIGTuB— •~☆Bratz☆~• (@TherrieAngelina) 1 de mayo de 2017
Beautiful story of a Filipina woman living, and serving, in Israel https://t.co/DYKmLJ7C3H— Robert Nicholson (@rwnicholson_) 2 de mayo de 2017
מרגש: כוחות צה"ל הצילו את סבתא שלה בסיוע ברעידת האדמה בפיליפינים לפני 3 שנים, עכשיו היא חיילת צה"ל ומאחלת לעם ישראל חנוכה שמח pic.twitter.com/n4tOKIIU4U— shlomi (@shlommii) 28 de diciembre de 2016
Filipina joins IDF unit that rescued her grandmother https://t.co/EYI5K72HiT— Israel News (@IsraelNewsNow) May 11, 2017
You know your parents are filipino when they make a correlation btwn the chinese new year and hanukkah. #lovefamily #theyareboth15days ? :l— Michael K. Olegario (@mikee_O1317) 9 בפברואר 2013
Didn't I say that Filipino Crypto-Jews were possibly lighting Hanukkah lights for Simbanggabi? Hence the modern-day celebration before dawn.— J. Estuardo-Migallos (@joshuamligan) 14 בנובמבר 2016
A JEWISH-FILIPINO HANUKKAH— Michael Levin (@spdocumentarian) 25 בדצמבר 2016
Making latkes with ube, the purple yam of the Philippines@CremeCaramelLA pic.twitter.com/0CHpAWM9rq
Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 87b: The Holy One exiled Israel among the nations only in order that converts might join them.
SARAH HERSHENSON: Every year, a number of Filipino women who come to work in Israel convert to Judaism and are here to stay.
Amnon Ramon: We can see this is a growing phenomenon and it has changed the face of Christianity in the Holy Land.
In the Holy Land, a changed Christian world: The schedules for Mass at the two Roman Catholic churches in Jaffa, on Israel’s Mediterranean coast, reveal a change that has dramatically, if quietly, altered the face of Christianity in the Holy Land.
The two Masses in Arabic for the town’s native Arab Christian population are outnumbered by four attended mainly by Filipina caregivers.
Father Ramzi Sidawi, an Arab Catholic from Jerusalem, is the parish priest in Jaffa. Outside the church windows, he said, he now listens every day to children from Africa and the Philippines playing in Hebrew, the language of their schools and their parents’ employers.
On a recent Sunday, the chapel at the Ratisbonne monastery in downtown Jerusalem rang with the sound of hymns in Tagalog, one of the languages of the Philippines. Most of the worshippers were women who serve as caregivers for elderly Israelis.
There were 5,000 Filipino workers in Israel when Father Angelo Beda Ison, a Manila-born Franciscan who tends to the local Filipino community, arrived in 1991. Today there are 40,000 to 100,000.
The past two decades have seen one of the most significant influxes of Christians into the Holy Land since the Crusades, and it has created a wholly new Christian landscape shaped by the realities of Israel.
For the first time, the Catholic Church has to deal with Catholic kids who are assimilating into a Jewish majority. There are now several thousand children born to foreign workers who speak Hebrew as a first language, celebrate Jewish holidays with their classmates and are subject, like children everywhere, to the pull of the mainstream.
Catholics are not the only Church dealing with demographic shifts. Immigrants from the former Soviet Union began moving to Israel en masse in the early 1990s. Among them were an estimated 50,000 to 80,000 practicing Christians, mostly Orthodox. So the Russian Orthodox Church now holds services in Hebrew every week in Jerusalem. The tiny Ethiopian Orthodox Church, too, has been dealing with its own newcomers: asylum seekers from Eritrea reaching Israel in increasing numbers, smuggled in from Egypt by Bedouin.
These disparate groups of Christians share one trait — they have gone almost unnoticed by the majority of Israelis.
DAVID W. CHEN: Hillcrest now has Rockland’s highest percentage of African-Americans and Asians, plus a growing number of Hispanic residents, making it one of the state’s most diverse communities.
But the shifts also show how racial change, particularly in sprawling suburbs, can occur not just relatively amicably but sometimes without attracting much notice.
Even within Ramapo, Hillcrest is often overlooked. To the south is Spring Valley, a diverse hub grappling with overcrowded housing and economic redevelopment, while to the southwest and northeast, respectively, are the Orthodox and Hasidic enclaves of Monsey and New Square.
Still, most residents seem genuinely surprised and grateful that Hillcrest has changed so much with so little fuss – so far.
Thelma DeGuzman immigrated directly from the Philippines, joining relatives already in the area. She saw immediately that Hillcrest differed from her expectations of an American suburb.
“I thought there were only tall white people because of what I see in the movies,’ said Ms. DeGuzman, a nursing aide. ‘But then I said, 'Oh, my God! This is like the Philippines! So many Filipinos!”
May the Force of Hanukkah be with you! pic.twitter.com/E0ZO4UgbVo
— Rob Schneider (@RobSchneider) December 7, 2015
Chag Hanukkah Sameach to my Jewish family all over the world!
— Robert Bernardo (@robertbernardo) December 7, 2015
What's the real reason why the Simbanggabi was moved to the early morning? Where Filipino Crypto-Jews kindling Hanukkah lights?
— George G. Milhughes (@joshuamligan) 7 Aralık 2015
Happy Chanukkah😋❤️ pic.twitter.com/pRqx1TeEYL
— Cassandra (@bsbfan4lifee) 6 Aralık 2015
Happy Chanukah to all those who celebrate. May love and light fill your heart and home.
— Jenjen (@gottalovemom) 6 Aralık 2015
my parents got me chocolate for Hanukkah... I don't even like chocolate??? 🙃
— Ashley L (@therealashL) December 8, 2015
bought myself these for Hanukkah not realizing my parents already did and Nathan was planning on it too...whoops 😅 pic.twitter.com/6PkI6XZF5E
— Ashley L (@therealashL) December 7, 2015
¡Ay vey! Both @LatinoUSA @AltLatino explore #Latino #Jewish identity this week. Feliz Hanukkah a todos!
— Sam Fein (@SamFeinArt) דצמבר 8, 2015
Michael Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails: And now that access is ubiquitous and everybody has access, to me, that puts the burden on the service to make music enticing—different portals and entryways and rabbit holes. And what if that experience could be one that turns more people on to great music? I think that’s exciting.
It’s kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created. That’s great. But I think now, the experience is what matters, and my experience with competitors has been less than optimal. I feel like I’m walking into a big box store where all the merchandise is in a cardboard box. I mean, it’s there, you can eat all you want. But it’s searching for a book in a card catalog versus a place where you walk in and leave kind of blown away by the stuff you didn’t realize you wanted when you went in there. You’re turned on to the experience of listening or participating or getting engaged.
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.
