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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Israel News WATCH: Holocaust Survivors Strut Their Stuff in Fashion Show
After surviving the Holocaust, a group of elderly women took a star turn this week at a fashion show in the Israeli city of Haifa, dressed in pageant dresses and celebrated with cheers and applause. “Tonight we’re letting some women who survived the Holocaust have something that was robbed from them in their youth,” David…
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Fast Forward Democrats Get Meaner on (Anthony) Weiner After Email Revelations
Democrats had long observed a code of omertà around Anthony Weiner, hoping to spare his estranged wife and top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin from the glare of the press. But now that his sexting habit threatens to derail Clinton’s presidential ambitions, party leaders aren’t holding back their anger toward the disgraced former congressman. “Well,…
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Israel News Israel Denounces Online Gaza War Game as Incitement
Israel regularly cites Palestinian television and radio programming for what it says an incitement to violence against the Jewish state. Now, the country’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan is reportedly demanding that Google and Apple remove a game from their app stores that he says encourages attacks on Israeli soldiers. Blasting the game, called “Liyla…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Chelsea Handler Tells Ivanka To ‘Dump Trump’
For all the criticism leveled at Donald Trump, many pundits have praised his kids. But comedian Chelsea Handler isn’t having it. She has a message for the Republican nominee’s daughter Ivanka Trump: get on the right side of history and the wrong side of your family. “If she were to come forward now, after everything…
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Israel News Meet Shifa al-Qudsi, Wannabe Palestinian Suicide Bomber Turned Peace Activist
Shifa al-Qudsi once sought vengeance on Israel, trying and failing to commit a suicide bombing against the Jewish state. But after six years spent in prison for her crime, the Palestinian former hairdresser now advocates nonviolence as a peace activist, the New York Times reported in a Saturday profile. “They occupy your home, your land,…
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News The Forward in the Podesta Files
John Podesta’s e-mails have revealed a lot about Hillary Clinton’s outreach to American Jews and her messaging on Israel. So, of course the Forward had something to do with it. It turns out that Podesta subscribes to newsletters from numerous Jewish organizations, including Tikkun Magazine and the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Peace, a Washington,…
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Fast Forward Ramones Get Street Name Outside Queens School Where Their Rock Was Born
None of the Ramones were the most dedicated students, preferring to rock out than to attend classes. But come Sunday, the news site DNAInfo reported, the street in front of the place where the four original members met, Forest Hills High School, will be renamed ‘Ramones Way’ in honor of the innovative punk rock band….
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Fast Forward Torah Scrolls Returned to Synagogue After Simchat Torah Robbery
A Brooklyn synagogue had to celebrate Simchat Torah without four of its holy scrolls, following a theft on Tuesday morning. But in a thankful reversal of fortune, the Torahs were returned to the Midwood congregation shortly after midnight on Friday, leaving some to speculate that the robber saw the error of his ways. “Thanks to…
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