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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The Schmooze Amy Schumer Becomes First Woman to Make ‘Forbes’ Top Paid-Comedian List
Amy Schumer drove home another win this week, nabbing a spot on Forbes’ round up of the ten highest-paid comics—the first time a woman has ever cracked the list. Racking in an income of $17 million thanks in part to her book, “The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo,” and movie, “Trainwreck,” Schumer came in…
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The Schmooze Howard Stern Feels Trumped Up By First Debate
Howard Stern never expected he’d figure into an American presidential race. The talk-show host told BuzzFeed News that it felt surreal when he got name-checked at Monday night’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, as the candidates disputed Trump’s opposition to the Iraq War. “Now I can check that off on my bucket list,”…
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News A JCC Sprouts in Harlem as Jews Head (Back) Uptown
There were once set-in-stone dividing lines between the Jewish Upper West Side and predominantly black Harlem. But no more, with this week’s announcement that a Jewish community center will open uptown this January, the product of a wave of gentrification in the fast-changing uptown neighborhood. As reported in The Jewish Week, the center will open…
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News Hasidic Swimming Pool Wars Rage in Brooklyn
Assemblyman Dov Hikind dove back into Brooklyn’s Hasidic swimming pool wars, sending a letter to the New York City Parks Department that demands it reverse a plan to limit women-only hours at the Metropolitan Recreation Center in Williamsburg. The city Parks Department granted the single-sex swimming hours as an accommodation to the area’s Hasidic women,…
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News Meet Gina Zuckerman, the 90-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Who Beat Off a Mugger
Gina Zuckerman has always been a tough cookie. The 90-year-old Greenwich Village woman survived the Holocaust, worked in the testosterone-infused culture of Madison Avenue, and still lives alone and independently in her studio apartment. So a female mugger who tried to snatch Zuckerman’s purse got more than she could handle when the nonagenarian fought back…
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News Will This Invention Make the ‘Shabbos Goy’ Obsolete?
Observant Jews might soon be able to dispense with the “Shabbos goy,” the Gentile neighbor or friend who performs forbidden labor during the Sabbath, reports Orthodox news site “Vos Iz Neias” (Yiddish for “What is News?”). That’s because Morty Kohn, a Brooklyn electrician, has created a new light bulb that he says can effectively be…
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The Schmooze This 6-Year-Old Threw the Ultimate Drake Themed Birthday Party
6-year-old Leah Saldivar might just be Drake’s biggest fan. And she had a birthday party to show for it—including balloons with the rapper’s face emblazoned on them, fake $100 bills thrown on the table, and posters highlighting the singer’s OVO record company and latest albums. Those lucky enough to score an invite were sent this…
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News A Jewish Exodus from France? Not So Fast
After a wave of terror attacks, and a spike in anti-Semitic hate-crimes, French Jews were said to be fleeing en masse for Israel. But figures released this week by the Jewish People’s Policy Institute indicate the exodus isn’t exactly what it’s cracked up to be. According to the research organization, 5,000 French Jews will make…
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