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The Absolute Truth: All the cities of Eretz Yisroel will be rebuilt, including even Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Natasha Case and Freya Estreller: What could be sweeter than a Rye & Cream Cheese Ice Cream Sandwich to celebrate Rosh Hashanah? Ukranian-Russian-Polish-German-Jewish-American Mash-Up Natasha Case and Chinese-Filipina-Spanish-Portuguese-American Mash-Up Freya Estreller, founders of COOLHAUS and Ludlows Cocktail Co., shared their recipe for this mashiest of ice cream sandwiches to help us celebrate the Jewish New Year. It’s round! It’s sweet! It’s delicious. Do it. L’Shana Tova, all.


Freya Estreller: I prefer to target a niche and dominate it.
Freya Estreller: I'm Filipino, Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish. I'm married to a Jewish-Russian Lesbian




Ken Natori: Ever since I had met Anika’s parents [Maxine and Andrzej] during Giora and my senior year at Amherst, they had always joked [to me, Anika, and whoever else would listen] that their daughter and I would one day end up together. Maxine had even joked about how our wedding [Headline: Polish-Mexican-Jewish-Daughter of West Coast Academics Marries Japanese-Filipino-Catholic-Son of New York Socialites] would have to be chosen as the Times’ Wedding of the Week.
Anika Yael Natori: The nice jew that I am, one of the highest ranking members of the Filipino Catholic Church was flown in from the Philippines for our wedding. I am one lucky girl and feel so honored/privileged/happy to have found someone as amazing as Ken. I love him with all my heart. Ken is my everything and I love him so dearly. Not only for what he has given me [children, marriage, love, stability, a family, everything], but for who he is and the life that we have together.


James Campbell: Jewish and Filipino traditions were uniquely blended together in this beautiful outdoor ceremony. Family and friends came from all over the world to help them celebrate their incredible wedding day!





Sharon Delmendo: Quezon developed an affinity for the Jews because he felt that there was a symbolic brotherhood between Filipinos and Jews, as the Filipinos were the recipients of racial discrimination and bigotry on the part of many Americans at the time and the Jews were similarly the recipients of bigotry by the Nazis. Even though Quezon had extremely important political and economic issues to wrestle with at this time, he was willing to take a stand to help the Jews.

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Regina Teplitsky, left, and Joy Lazo sing the Canadian anthem together prior to a screening of the documentary Rescue in the Philippines at the Asper Jewish Community Campus in Winnipeg on Monday. (Chris Glover/CBC)
CBCfanzine: The Jewish and Filipino communities of Winnipeg have contributed so much good to the city. They are very much a big part of what makes Winnipeg, well Winnipeg. There’s no other city quite like it in Canada, and I say that as a jealous resident of Ottawa!
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Jacob Wirtschafter: On Rosh Hashanah, Israelis welcome a more diverse set of Jews

||Marlene and Vittorio Ishak point out their wedding photograph, displayed prominently at the Beit Daniel Reform synagogue in Tel Aviv. Marlene, 53, married Vittorio, 81, in a civil ceremony in Cyprus. Today they are jointly attending an Introduction to Judaism course, part of the synagogue’s conversion process. Photo by Jacob Wirtschafter||

||Rabbi Galia Sadan teaches the Introduction to Judaism course, a requirement for conversion candidates at Beit Daniel, the largest Reform synagogue in Tel Aviv, Israel. More than half of the participants in this course are Filipino women with Israeli partners. Photo by Jacob Wirtschafter||
Jacob Wirtschafter: “We come every Friday and feel like we are part of the congregation,” said Jennifer Yehuda, 33, who came to Israel in 1998 from Cavite, a town nine miles south of Manila, the Philippines. “These are warm and accepting people who make it possible for us to come here as foreigners and make us feel like we are at home.”
“The Orthodox rabbis want to check that you have separate sinks and dishes for meat and dairy,” said Vittorio Ishak, who joins Marlene, his Filipino-born wife, at the synagogue’s weekly conversion course. “Here the rabbi wants to check that you understand the meaning behind the prayers and customs.”
Last year, Beit Daniel certified 135 of the 200 conversions performed in Israel by the Reform movement. About one-third of these new Jews are of Filipino origin.
While those from the former Soviet Union states still constitute about half of all candidates for conversion, Filipinos have emerged as the second largest ethnic community in the conversion cohort at Beit Daniel.
As Southeast Asians in a country where most immigrants are of European and Middle Eastern descent, the Filipinos are a highly visible new element in an increasingly diverse Reform Jewish community in Israel, which also includes gay couples.
“It is understandable that many of the Filipinos are participating in their services,” said Professor Zvi Zohar, a scholar at the Center for Halacha, at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. “They come from a country where people take their religion seriously.”

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.