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 Police Investigating Colorado Teen’s Suicide Discover His Neo-Nazi Facebook Group
After a Boulder, Colorado high school student took his own life, police found a neo-Nazi chat group that involved him and more than a dozen other students. “You can hang Jews on trees, shoot them right in the knees. Gas as many as you please,” wrote one commenter on the Facebook conversation, titled “4th Reich…
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News Right Before Yom Kippur, New York Synagogue Finds Swastikas Spray-Painted on Cemetery Wall
As Jews prayed this weekend to be sealed into the Book of Life, vandals in a upstate New York town of Warwick disrespected their dead. Police in the town on October 9 alerted officials at nearby Temple Beth Shalom that the front of their cemetery had been defaced with a spray-painted swastika and Nazi slogans…
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The Schmooze ‘Harry Potter’ Series Finally Gets a Jewish Twist
After the publication of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” almost a decade ago, fans were afraid the series had finally come to an end, and that soon it would disappear from the big screen, too. But “Harry Potter” has found the Resurrection Stone (perhaps for reasons magical and pecuniary), first with the opening of…
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News 4 Things to Know About the Noble Harvard Prof Who Won Nobel
In Cambridge, Massachusetts—home to prestigious schools like Harvard and M.I.T.—the Swedish Academy’s announcement of Nobel Prize winners usually brings happy news to several professors. The streak holds this month, as Harvard economist Oliver Hart scored a Nobel for his works on contracts. Sharing the Prize in Economics with his MIT colleague, Bengt Holmstrom, the Jewish…
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News NYC Urges Citizens to Register and “Nosh the Vote” Before Yom Kippur Fast
As Jews in New York today got ready to start their Yom Kippur fast at sundown, the city offered them one more opportunity to chow down — and also to register to vote. As part of the “Nosh the Vote” program, a dozen food trucks and street carts across the five boroughs today distributed voter…
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News Jeffrey Goldberg, Liberal Zionist Writer, Named Atlantic’s Next Editor-in-Chief
Jeffrey Goldberg, the prominent columnist known for his foreign policy writings and liberal Zionist commitments, was on October 11 named as the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, a magazine reputed for its highbrow coverage of news and culture. “It’s certainly true that this was not in my plan for 2016,” he said in a Monday interview…
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News You Lost The Debate? Blame the Jews
If Donald Trump lost his second smackdown with Hillary Clinton, it’s because the Jews sabotaged him or spun his performance to their own advantage, say his most ardent backers in the “alt-right” blogosphere. “The people believe Trump won the debate. It’s really just an objective fact. Not sure how even liberal kikes could claim otherwise….
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Israel News Yehuda Glick, Temple Provocateur and Knesset Member, Renounces Trump
After the Friday night release of an audio tape in which Donald Trump bragged about committing sexual assault, Republican leaders abandoned their presidential nominee in droves. That trend extended across the ocean, with Yehuda Glick, a former American citizen and Likud member of the Knesset, renouncing his support for the party’s standard bearer. “Mr. Trump,…
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