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 5 Jews Who Make Christmas the Most Wonderful Time of the Year — Starting With Jesus
As the holiday season gears up, white supremacist David Duke and assorted others are sounding off about the “war on Christmas” — a purported plot to make the yuletide gay and atheist. Duke says Jews are behind the scheme, citing a joke that Sarah Silverman made about killing Jesus. Yet several Jews have actually made…
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News David Duke Says Jews Aren’t White — and Jews Clap Back
A new article in The Atlantic magazine posed the question of whether Jews are white, and of course David Duke, white supremacist, has the answer. No – JEWS ARE NOT WHITE! https://t.co/EqNJpej0Z6 — David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) December 5, 2016 The article was spurred by the rise this election season of the “alt-right,” which championed the…
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News Polls Finds Almost Half of Jewish Israelis Think Left Is Traitorous Fifth Column
Almost half of Israel’s Jews think the country’s political left isn’t patriotic, finds the latest poll of the Israel Democracy Institute’s Peace Index, in a survey that shows a public continuing to hold attitudes that favor the current right-wing government. According to the poll, 48% of Israeli Jews don’t believe leftists are loyal to the…
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News Swastika and ‘Praise Trump’ Graffiti Found on Manhattan Phone Booth
The country’s post-election hate crime wave struck New York once more on Sunday, after the discovery of swastikas and the phrase “Praise Trump” graffitied onto a phone booth located at West 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, according to a Monday report in DNAInfo. A woman notified police of the vandalism, when she noticed the vandalism…
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News Al Gore: Ivanka Trump Is ‘Very Concerned’ About Climate Change
Former Vice President Al Gore had kind words on Monday night for Ivanka Trump, following his meeting earlier with her and President-elect Donald Trump to discuss climate change. “It’s no secret that Ivanka Trump is very committed to having a climate policy that makes sense for our country and for our world and that was…
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Fast Forward Al Gore Talks Climate Change With Ivanka Trump — and Donald Too
Former Vice President Al Gore said he discussed climate change with Ivanka Trump Monday, in another sign that the first daughter will have an outsized role in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. “I had a lengthy and very productive session with the president-elect. It was a sincere search for areas of common ground,” the former vice…
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News Why Is a Major Jewish Group Hosting a Hanukkah Party With Azerbaijan?
Hold the latkes, leaders of the Workmen’s Circle said this week. The liberal Jewish group won’t be attending a Hanukkah party hosted by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, citing the event’s location at Donald Trump’s Washington hotel and its co-sponsorship by the country of Azerbaijan. “As a Jewish organization, we cannot…
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News Israeli Sledder Follows His North Star to the Arctic
There’s rarely snow in Israel. But if an outdoorsman from the West Bank settlement of Efrat gets his wish, he will become the first of his countrymen to participate in a polar sledding competition, traveling hundreds of miles between Norway and Sweden next April. “I’ve always had a penchant for adventure and crazy ideas,” Erik…
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