Daniel J. Solomon is the former Assistant to the Editor/News Writer at the Forward. Originally from Queens, he attended Harvard as an undergraduate, where he wrote his senior thesis on French-Jewish intellectual history. He is excited to have returned to New York after his time in Massachusetts. Daniel’s passions include folk music, cycling, and pointed argument.
Daniel J. Solomon
By Daniel J. Solomon
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News More Swastikas Found on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
The swastika sighted this week on 104th Street and Broadway in Manhattan was one of several hateful scrawlings in the neighborhood, according to local reports. A number of buildings and phone booths between 104th and 105th Streets on Broadway were tagged with swastikas, “KKK” and “Nazi,” DNAInfo reported. All the graffiti appeared to be done…
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Fast Forward British PM Vows in Op-Ed to Protect British Jews
British Prime Minister Theresa May launched a personal appeal to her country’s Jewish community on Thursday, writing in an op-ed that she and her government would fight anti-Semitism through all means at its disposal. “I want to speak very directly to every Jewish family in the UK, to assure you of my personal determination to…
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Fast Forward New Yorker Reminds People That ‘Borowitz Report’ Is Fake News
“Putin Agrees To Receive Intelligence Briefings In Trump’s Place.” “Trump To Step Away From Making His Businesses Bankrupt To Focus On Bankrupting Country.” Did you believe that? Apparently the New Yorker no longer trusts that its readers will sniff a satire in the headlines of its Borowitz Report. Last week, the New Yorker changed the…
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Fast Forward The Story of a Jacket’s Secret Journey, From Dachau to Queens
More than four decades after his death, Holocaust survivor Ben Peres is telling his story, thanks to a collector’s discovery of his his inmate jacket from the Dachau concentration camp at a Long Island estate sale. Belonging to Ben Peres, the rare item was found last year when his wife Chaya was clearing out her…
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Fast Forward Ben Shapiro: Yeshiva University Just Using Me To Look Righteous
Ben Shapiro hit back at the faculty of Yeshiva University, blasting them after more than two dozen professors — including University President Richard Joel — criticized the rightwing pundit’s comments about transgender people at a speech on campus hosted last week. “The real reason that Y.U. condemned me is that it’s very rare that a Modern Orthodox…
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Fast Forward READ: Julia Ioffe’s Edgiest Tweets
Political writer and Forward 50 honoree Julia Ioffe ran into some trouble on Wednesday, when she posted an obscene Tweet implying that President-elect Donald Trump had an incestuous relationship with daughter Ivanka Trump. She’s now deleted that post, but here are some of her most daring post-election tweets. Contact Daniel J. Solomon at [email protected] or…
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Fast Forward Meet Julia Ioffe, the Journalist Fired for Tweeting About Incest Between Trumps
Julia Ioffe, a widely read political writer, got the axe from her position at Politico on Wednesday after she posted an obscene Tweet that imputed either incest or nepotism to Ivanka Trump’s decision to join her father in the White House while his wife, Melania Trump, stays in New York. Here are five facts about…
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Fast Forward Another Swastika Found on NYC Building
New York’s hate graffiti wave got its Broadway debut on Wednesday, after a Manhattan woman found a swastika scribbled onto the side of a building on the Upper West Side. Neighborhood resident Lauren Monchik told the Forward she discovered the swastika on the building, located on the intersection of 104th Street and Broadway. She notified…
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