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
-
Fast Forward Cadillac Ad Company Puts Out Casting Call for ‘Neo-Nazi’
Cadillac is defending itself after one of its creative agencies released a casting call last week for “alt-right (neo-Nazi)” individuals to be featured in a new ad celebrating the United States’ diversity. “This is a beautifully artistic spot that is capturing all walks of life of America,” the solicitation, released by the Cast Station and…
-
Israel News Jerusalem Mayor Hopes Ivanka and Jared Will Push for Embassy Move
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has a wish-list for President-elect Donald Trump, and the top item is moving the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the holy city. Barkat thinks Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner will help him at long last tick off this item. “My impression is, because I know some of…
-
Fast Forward Should British Serial Killer’s Victims Be Moved to Jewish Cemetery — 70 Years Later?
Almost seven decades after his sister and niece were murdered by a notorious serial killer, Peter Mylton-Thorley is requesting their bodies be exhumed and moved to a Jewish cemetery — where he, too, will lie once he dies. “I haven’t got long left. All I want is to be buried with my sister. It would…
-
News David Duke Asks New York Times Reporter, ‘Are You Jewish?’
The New York Times reported a story over the weekend about how the “alt-right” is attempting to clean up its image, now that President-elect Donald Trump’s victory has brought its message to the mainstream. But David Duke seems not to have gotten the memo, asking the newspaper’s reporters a question that reveals that it’s still…
-
News Vandals Spray Neo-Nazi Graffiti in Another Brooklyn Park
A worker at park between Brooklyn and Queens discovered swastikas and neo-Nazi graffiti scrawled on benches Thursday, the latest in a wave of hate crimes in New York City. The vandalism at the Newton Creek Nature Walk included swastikas, the slogans “Go Home Refugees,” “Heil Hitler,” “Now begins 1000 years of TRUMP!, and insults directed…
-
News Trump Picks Third Goldman Sachs Alum, Gary Cohn, for Government Role
President-elect Donald Trump has stocked his stable of advisers with one more Goldman Sachs alum, appointing company president Gary Cohn to lead the National Economic Council in a stark departure from his campaign promise to “drain the swamp.” Cohn will become the third Goldman pick to closely advise Trump, following the choice of Steve Bannon…
-
Fast Forward Neo-Nazis Revel in Richard Spencer Texas A&M Event
The Daily Stormer’s Andrew Anglin is bragging online after he and other neo-Nazis showed up at Richard Spencer’s Tuesday night speech at Texas A&M. “We were there for Richard Spencer’s event, or, to be more precise, we were there to confront the hordes of Jews, anti-Whites, and mud people who presume to tell us what…
-
Fast Forward Meet the Jewish Photographer Behind Donald Trump’s ‘Subversive’ Time Cover
After his provocative image of Donald Trump hit the cover of Time Magazine, Israeli photographer Nadav Kander is being treated to his own close-up. “I attempt to photograph people making a portrait that is a moment in time,” Kander wrote Thursday on Twitter. His picture is being featured by Time in the issue where it…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Film & TV The new ‘Superman’ is being called anti-Israel, but does that make it pro-Palestine?
- 2
Fast Forward Tucker Carlson calls for stripping citizenship from Americans who served in the Israeli army
- 3
Opinion This German word explains Trump’s authoritarian impulses — and Hitler’s rise to power
- 4
Music ‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture Rabbi, get your gun
-
Opinion How I got AI to create fake Nazi memos — and what that means for the future of antisemitism
-
Fast Forward How the Jewish commandment to ‘be fruitful and multiply’ could help a woman challenge Kentucky’s abortion ban in court
-
Yiddish ווידעאָ: יוטוב־פּערזענלעכקייט רעדט אויף ייִדיש וועגן אַ משפּחה־טראַגעדיעVIDEO: Youtube personality speaks in Yiddish about a tragedy in the family
מאַטי מענדלאָוויטשעס ברודער, וואָס האָט יאָרן לאַנג געליטן פֿון דעפּרעסיע, האָט הײַיאָר זיך גענומען דאָס לעבן. .
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
