Jordan Friedman

My home is not typically a social hub, as I am known to share my opinions as readily and as fiercely in private as...

I believe with perfect faith that although he may tarry, the Denver Broncos quarterback will come. In fact, he is here. That’s right, I am a Bo-liever and I trust in Bo-ses to bring us to the Promised Land.

The Epstein Files. It is just so deliciously ironic that what most threatens Donald Trump’s standing with his base is a conspiracy theory that he would like to debunk. Trump’s political rise and endurance is built on a foundation of getting a large number of people to buy into nonsense. He was an Obama birther, accused Sen. Ted Cruz’s father of conspiring to assassinate JFK, depicted hordes of illegal immigrants swarming the country, inflated crowd sizes, downplayed Covid, stoked anti-Fauci and anti-vax sentiment, claimed fraud in the 2020 election, and fraud in 2024 until he won.

Zionism is a compromise. Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, is a Biblical, religious concept with variously defined boundaries. In Genesis 15:18, G-d’s covenant with Abraham included territory from the “River of Egypt to the great river Porat.” The “River of Egypt” is sometimes said to be the Nile and sometimes it is the Wadi el-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula, while the river Porat is the Euphrates. In Exodus 23:31, the borders are from the “Sea of Reeds” (Sinai Peninsula) to the “Sea of Philistia” (Mediterranean Sea) and from the “desert” (Negev) to “The River” (Euphrates). The State of Israel, in contrast, is substantially smaller. Why? Because Zionism is a compromise.

On my first night of the graduate tax program at DU, our assignment was to memorize a set of percentages used in the Internal Revenue Code for a variety of credits and tax benefits. On the second night, there was a roomful of befuddled accountants and lawyers who went hunting for categorical rules of thumb that would be easier to remember for the exam.