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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Breaking News Harvard Professor Gets Anti-Semitic Postcard in the Mail
Sanford Levinson, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, on Monday received a postcard full of anti-Semitic threats that referenced President-elect Donald Trump, according to reports in the Dallas Morning News and Boston Globe. “Hey Sandy, you just got your kike ass kicked… We are gonna drain the swamp at Harvard Law School, Juden Raus,”…
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News Jewish Williamsburg Latest Target of Swastika Graffiti
The country’s post-election hate crime wave has now hit Williamsburg, where residents at the Independence Towers in the southern part of the Brooklyn neighborhood discovered swastikas and the slogans “KKK” and “Trump” graffitied on the stairwell Friday. “Such messages are extremely painful and when dismissed and ignored, it can escalate into physical attacks, God forbid,”…
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News In His Office, Good Jewish Boy Jared Kushner Reads the Sages
Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser, keeps a pretty Jewish office, according to an exclusive Forbes profile of President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law. Kushner’s office is a spartan affair, empty of much decoration, except for framed covers of the New York Observer (the weekly paper that he owns) and signs of his Orthodox Jewish…
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News What You Need to Know From Jared Kushner’s First Interview
Jared Kushner has widely been reputed as the brains behind father-in-law Donald Trump’s successful bid for the presidency. And for the first time since the campaign began, he’s talked to the press in an exclusive interview with Forbes Magazine. 1. Kushner Might Be the Reason Trump Won “Best I can tell, he actually ran the…
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News Sanders Chides Democrats for Emphasizing Race, Gender Over Economy
Bernie Sanders has a message to the Democratic Party — if it wants to win elections in the future, stop fixating on the gender and race of candidates and instead focus on their economic platform. “It goes without saying that as we fight to end all forms of discrimination, as we fight to bring more…
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Breaking News Melania Trump’s Diamond Merchant Cuts Ties With Adoptive Son After Murder
Jeffrey Rackover, a Fifth Avenue diamond merchant who caters the stars, is cutting his losses on adopted son James Rackover, accused last week of committing a violent murder in Manhattan last week. “Jeffrey is devastated, inconsolable,” a close friend told DNAInfo after James Rackover, a 22-year-old with a troubled past, was held on a $3…
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News New Internet Plug-In Turns Phrase ‘Alt-Right’ Into ‘White Supremacy’
The ‘alt-right’ has used the Internet as one of its primary weapons to harass, troll and chat over the course of the election season. Now, there’s an Internet tool to fight back against the motley crew of white nationalists — a plug-in to the Web browser Google Chrome that turns the word “alt-right” into “white…
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Breaking News Muslim ‘Registry’? Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus Won’t Rule It Out
Donald Trump’s incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus refused on Sunday to dismiss the possibility of establishing a registry of Muslims visiting and immigrating to the United States. “Look, I wouldn’t rule out anything, but we’re not going to have a registry based on a religion,” Priebus, the present chair of the Republican National Committee…
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