If you didn't already know, and you probably did, Hamas means violence in Hebrew. It comes from Psalms where King David says "Hamasim" which means violent men.

It amazes me how some democratic countries don't even recognize Hamas as a terrorist group - and not only that but even call them the saviors of the fake people.

Just goes to show that we shouldn't depend on other people like politicians, governments or anyone to see the nature of these animals. The only one who can save us from these insane people is Hashem.

So it turns out that some crazy political party in Hungary decided that Jews with an Israeli passport are a threat to national security!

See the article here

Lets go over the list of evil things the Jews have done in other countries in the past.

1....

Hmmm, well then that was a long list of evil things Jews have done that threaten national security.

I have a better proposition, lets put every Hungarian that did not aid the Jews in WW2 on the national securty list.

On a more serious note, it wouldn't surprise me if in America the same thing was done. What would the Jews do then? The .02% protest vs. the majority of anti-semites? If anything put all the muslims on the list - they are the one with the religion that preaches war and death to anyone who opposes them. Putting aside the complete irrationality and absurdity of the whole thing, something like this would be a good wake up call to the Jews.

I'm not the one to tell anyone go to Israel now before it's too late. I believe you must live where you think is the safest and where you think you can get close to Hashem the most. If anything living in Israel right now with Hamas potentially starting up another war any day - that would constitute living in Israel as a danger to my life, hence I should avoid it.

Anyways, getting derailed here....

Here's another article of some blatant anti-semetism of where a Jewish judge is being accused of bias only because of his heritage.

Not that I understand why any Jew (especially frum Jew) would want to be a judge. There's no country in the world that will let you judge any man according to the Torah. The majority of cases brought up in court today would be instantly dismissed due to the fact that there were no two witnesses. But that's a talk for another time.

Who cares about who the president is?

I wonder why so many Jews are concerned about who is the president. I learned once that Hashem controls all the leaders of the world. When it comes to making decisions for a country regarding Jews, the leaders have no free will.

(See this lecture http://www.divineinformation.com/videos-english/what-is-hashems-message-to-us-2/ for the source)

All the doomsday predictions popping up right now are exactly the same ones that were being made back when Obama was elected the first time around. But hey, at least Obama didn't coerce Israel to give away land like Clinton and Bush did.

Eitherway, even if the end is going to be very soon, our minds should probably be on more important things like...what saves us from Moshiach?

2 things are commonly said to save us:

1. Learning Torah
2. Acts of kindness
3. (Less commonly spoken about) Having 3 meals on Shabbos (Sanhedrin)

Just learning torah alone is not enough to save us, gotta do acts of kindness as well. So if you think the end of the world is coming soon, better start worrying about what you have to show Hashem than where you live. (Not that living in dangerous places is something to ignore but you get the point).

So much hatred

There is so much hatred toward the Jews.

I was looking at a video about some Rabbi's lecture on youtube. There were pages upon pages of hate filled comments towards the Jews. Arguing with each person along feels like trying to stamp out a forest fire with your foot.

My boss explodes

Today, unfortunately, I witnessed something pretty horrible.

At a meeting at my workplace. My boss was rambling, quite literary about how everyone was not doing their jobs well and how hurricane Sandy was not an excuse for poor communication between coworkers and clients.

Apparently, he did not quite understand that dead phones, no power, no gas - makes it impossible to continue "servicing" our clients.

And so, he goes on saying how everyone did not make a huge effort to keep things going. Despite the fact that halfway through the hurricane we had met up where some of us suffered extremely long (3hr) trips, hours of waiting in line for gas, and driving in dangerous conditions.

So one coworker spoke up saying that actually we did put in a big effort to meet up and mentioned that some of the coworkers had gone through great effort to be at this meeting.

My boss explodes.

"How dare you say that! I don't consider that a lot at all!....." He rambles on some more at this poor coworker about how wrong and horrible he is. The coworker profusely apologized over and over and my boss either did not hear or care, he just kept going on and on.

In retrospect, I should have stood up for my coworker. He was right after all. However, I think that I was just so shocked at the tone of voice from my boss, the words he spewed from his filthy mouth that I was just frozen.

Ironically enough, not more than a few minutes ago my boss was going on about how he is a good CEO. Pffft, yeah right. Good compared to the more insane CEO's, sure. But "good"? Not a chance.

I shudder to think what this poor mans punishment will be for publicly embarrassing my coworker so horribly.