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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Fast Forward Jewish Internet Activist Creates ‘BS Detector’ — Why Can’t Facebook Kill Fake News?
While news media and social networks puzzle over how to combat fake news, internet activist Daniel Sieradski has developed his own scheme to fight the harmful phenomenon — a plug-in that alerts users of untrustworthy sites. Sieradski’s add-on to internet browsers, called “BS Detector,” flags content from websites that are recognized for propagating conspiracy theories,…
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Fast Forward German Jewish Scholar: ‘Warnings Signs Are Flashing Red’ for Democracies
Western democracies are more under threat than one might think, according to a new study done by German Jewish scholar Yascha Mounk, reported The New York Times. “The warning signs are flashing red,” he told the newspaper, speaking about his research into the durability of democracy in the United States and Europe. “That’s only one…
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Fast Forward CNN’s Jeff Zucker Accused of Media Bias by Republican Campaign Operatives
CNN’s Jeff Zucker became a punching bag at a Harvard post-election confab, where Republican operatives accused him of aiding Trump’s rise in the primary with ample free press and favorable treatment. “You showed empty podiums!” senior Marco Rubio adviser Todd Harris screamed at Zucker, as the network president took the stage at the Kennedy School…
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News How Many L’s Does ‘Lincoln’ Have — in Hebrew?
Should “Lincoln” have two L’s in Hebrew? Some of the Jewish world’s top scholars convened at a Jerusalem conference to discuss Abraham Lincoln — and that was one of the topics of conversation at the event. During the conversation, held to mark the publication of a Hebrew translation of Jonathan Sarna’s “Lincoln and the Jews”…
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Film & TV Did Woody Allen Predict Donald Trump in ‘Bananas’?
Donald Trump’s elevation to the White House has inspired two apparently contradictory sentiments among liberals. The first is a skittishness about the future of democratic institutions and constitutional rights. The second is a desire to escape, in both a literal and figurative sense — hightail it to Canada or avoid the homepage of The New…
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News Is Donald Trump Backtracking on Campaign Pledge by Hiring Goldman Sachs Alumni?
President-elect Donald Trump promised to clean up Washington, D.C. But if his choices in advisers provide any signs of what’s to come, he has no plans to clear out the Goldman Sachs executives who have staffed finance positions from one administration to the next. Steve Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs banker (among other things), will…
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News American Military Officer Receives Posthumous Honor for Saving Jewish Conscripts
More than three decades after his death, United States Army Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds received a posthumous award for his working saving 200 Jewish soldiers from deportation to a Nazi slave labor camp, reported the Times of Israel. Edmonds and almost 1,300 other American GIs were captured at the Battle of Bulge, in the waning…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Man Grabs Woman’s Crotch Outside Brooklyn Synagogue
A Brooklyn woman told police on Tuesday that she was grabbed in the genital area by a man while standing outside the entrance to her synagogue in the predominantly Hasidic Boro Park neighborhood, according to the local news site DNAInfo. The victim told authorities the incident occurred at 50th Street, and that the man appeared…
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