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Darren Everett Criss



Karen Bowerman: Jews have been arriving in the Philippines since the Spanish Inquisition in the 16th century 
I catch up with a local guide, Angelo Alon, for a tour of Intramuros, Manila’s historic quarter, built by the Spanish, destroyed in the Second World War but since restored with the old citadel, Fort Santiago, forming the centrepiece. 
Manila is also home to a tiny Jewish population 
The rain ricochets off the river; I note the paparazzi are in the dry. I brave it out, and, at the risk of a wobble, wave and smile. A man fires off a volley of shots then waves and smiles back. Such is my introduction to Bohol, "the Island of Friendship," in the Philippines. 
As the sky clears, my instructor, Troy, and I paddle through dripping rainforest to the small Busay Falls. Clearings reveal patterned huts woven from banana leaves. A man fishing for tilapia drops a line from a bamboo pontoon. There’s the smell of meat cooking on hot coals. 
But it’s another form of wildlife for which Bohol is known; it’s the Philippine tarsier, said to have been the inspiration for the character of Yoda in Star Wars. 
The nocturnal, fist-sized creature is among the smallest primates in the world. Its eyes cover three quarters of its head and it has an exceptionally long ‘middle finger’ or tarsus bone, hence its name. 
I creep through a forest protected by the Philippine Tarsier and Wildlife Sanctuary near Corella. Amazingly, I’m in luck; clinging with its sucker-tipped hands to a narrow branch, I spot a shy fellow snoozing. It opens its goggle eyes and almost seems to smile. 
I visit during the May-to-October wet season, when everything is green. But it’s all still pretty dramatic, as the hills seem to glow under a brooding sky. 
Modern Jeepneys are now produced with surplus engines and parts coming from Japan. The decorations are entertaining – "God is the answer," one vehicle claims. "In God’s speed," declares another. But my favourite is "Thou shalt not kill" – always worth remembering when you hit the road. 
From Manila, it’s a short flight south-west to Busuanga in the island province of Palawan, for a relaxing end to my stay. I catch a boat to the privately-owned Dicilingan Island, occupied solely by the Huma Island Resort and Spa. I’m welcomed with garlands and song, and dine on locally-caught lapu lapu and cassava cake made from a grated root vegetable, eggs and coconut milk. 
Then it’s off to my over-water villa and outdoor Jacuzzi, from where I can spy the setting sun and say a fond farewell to the Philippines.

د. خالد طوقان: Nuclear power is, definitely, one of the solutions to graduate from total dependency on oil and gas. I am optimistic that the raw materials, the yellow cake, will come from Jordan.


the source: he updated the members of the Jewish Home on the goings on and asked them, in secret, to be prepared for the possibility that they will be in the opposition and not in the unity government, with the Labor party;

||There have been numerous proposals as to how the moon should be incorporated into the flag, including one such proposal from former President Fidel V. Ramos. To this day, the issue remains unresolved.||

Daniel Kahane: despite Judaism’s tremendous emphasis on the unity of G-d, and how the whole world is One, and we discussed in previous posts the importance of having only one leader, one head, the Torah itself begins with a word that can be easily understood as "Beit Reishit," two heads, two beginnings. 
While the West’s calendar (based on the Roman one) is purely solar and the Islamic calendar is purely lunar, the Jewish calendar has aspects of both. Joseph appears primarily associated with the year as a whole (countering Esau), while Judah appears to be primarily connected to the lunar months (countering Yishmael). 
Judah is first and foremost a leader of the people, while Joseph’s leadership is more detached, in a sense more connected to the Torah itself. 
The tension, balance, and contrast between Judah and Joseph is very apparent in the way the Torah places the very parallel stories of Joseph and Judah side by side 
This balance and tension has continued throughout history, most notably with King David and King Shaul, the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel (also called Ephraim in the Torah) 
The prophet Ezekiel’s vision of the Holy Chariot, Hashem’s holy throne, has a lion on the right (the symbol of Judah) and an ox on the left (the symbol of Joseph). The same prophet Ezekiel, in the haftorah reading for Vayigash, is told by G-d to collect one stick for Judah and one for Ephraim, and to join them together, symbolizing that in future Yosef and Yehudah will become completely united.

习近平: The creation of art can fly with the wings of imagination, but make sure art workers tread on solid earth.

习近平: Fine art works should be like sunshine from blue sky and breeze in spring that will inspire minds, warm hearts, cultivate taste, and clean up undesirable work styles.

习近平: Popularity should not necessitate vulgarity and hope should not entail covetousness.

AM MOSHE


Moshe: I will provoke their jealousy with a non people, provoke their anger with a foolish nation. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the field of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of rosh, and they have bitter clusters. Their wine is the bitterness of serpents, and the bitterness of the ruthless cobras. Is it not stored up with Me, sealed up in My treasuries? Sing out praise, O you Nations, for His people for He will avenge the blood of His servants, inflict revenge upon His Adversaries, and appease His land [and] His people.
this enchanted rainy night RUNning to meet You through the thick fog trees of people i run out in the street of You turn face to Headlight memory flashes as Your presence crashes through me like a rainy night semi highway face to face You're too much but that's good run me over with Love...run into Your highway, run into Your way, running face to Headlight, run over me...crushing bones and rib-caged now i'm free... and a little dizzy caught around Your wheels i'm exploding.....run over me.

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.