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 After Hate Crime Wave, Governor Andrew Cuomo Announces New Police Unit
After a spike in bias incidents since the election of Donald Trump, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Sunday that he would be ordering the state police to create a special unit to investigate hate crimes, according to a report in DNAInfo. “Today I’m directing [state agencies] to put together a special team of…
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News Did Family Money Buy Jared Kushner His Spot at Harvard?
Jared Kushner has often been characterized as the head of President-elect Donald Trump’s braintrust. But if old allegations are true, the newspaper owner and real estate magnate didn’t get into Harvard on his smarts. “There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard,”…
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News Meet Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s Finance Maven and Treasury Secretary
Three weeks after his victory, President-elect Donald Trump has named many of his top advisers, drawing heavily from the small group of aides and admirers who surrounded him during his campaign. Steve Mnuchin, his pick to lead the Treasury Department, fits that bill, having served as the candidate’s finance chair and long entertained personal and…
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News EXPLAINED: Will Trump Create a Muslim Registry?
President-elect Donald Trump’s victory has worried numerous minority groups, but perhaps none more than American Muslims. In the run-up to his January inauguration, many have fretted that the United States’ new leader might try to force Muslims to register with the government for monitoring purposes. Why is that? Is it legal? What are Jews doing…
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News Ottawa Synagogue Hit by Swastikas in City’s Second Anti-Semitic Incident This Week
For the second time in a week, anti-Semitic defacement has hit Ottawa, after a Modern Orthodox synagogue was tagged with swastikas, according to the Thursday story from the Canadian Broadcasting Company. “I think that this is far more than just regular graffiti vandalism,” Rabbi Idan Scher, spiritual leader of the Machzikei Hadas Modern Orthodox synagogue….
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News Did Trump’s Attorney Michael Cohen Care If Megyn Kelly Got Killed?
Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen has a reputation for being a dogged defender of his boss, refusing even to acknowledge that Trump’s support among African-Americans was weak. Indeed, according to Slate he got too rabid for Fox News, which had to ask him to tone down his attacks on anchor Megyn Kelly, who faced death…
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News Ruth Baron Ziff, the Ad Maven Behind the Charmin TP Squeeze, Dies at 92
Ruth Baron Ziff, a real-life Peggy Olson who made it in the “Mad Men” era of advertising, died last Saturday at the age of 92, according to The New York Times. Those of a certain age should remember her — she created the Mr. Whipple campaign for Charmin toilet paper, familiar to anyone who watched…
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News Jewish Legislator Finds Swastika in Manhattan Apartment Building
Jew hatred hit home Wednesday night for New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, who found a swastika carved into a wall in his apartment building and posted it to Twitter. Swastika found in my apartment building this evening in Greenwich Village. Anti-Semite named to #Trump White House post. Connect the dots. pic.twitter.com/3OlD8hewyF — Senator Brad…
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