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
-
News Sid Blumenthal, an Unhappy Bibi and 3 Other Jewish Moments From the Presidential Debate
After months of anticipation, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met Monday night in the first of three presidential debates. Stretching for 90 minutes, the spectacle lived up to the hype, and felt at times more like a boxing match than a civic event. Here’s five Jewish snap-shots from a night to remember: Return of Sid…
-
News Jewish Neocons Tweet Shade, Schadenfreude at Trump’s Debate Performance
It was a night of huffing and puffing, snorting and smarting, hectoring and interrupting for Donald Trump at the first presidential debate at Hofstra University. The media consensus — even the right-leaning Fox News — held that Hillary Clinton won. Jewish conservatives, many of them Never-Trumpers, signaled their agreement in a series of derisive tweets….
-
News Why the Boos at Broadway’s Beloved ‘Hamilton’? Because Bibi.
Getting in to see “Hamilton” is hard enough. But on Saturday night, the ticket line turned into a security check at Ben-Gurion Airport, as Benjamin Netanyahu attended the Broadway hit. Visiting New York for a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, the Israeli premier detoured to Richard Rodgers Theater to see the famed musical,…
-
The Schmooze The Six Jewiest Moments From This Season of ‘Transparent’
Transparent’s third season dropped last week, and we are kvelling. As Maura (Jeffrey Tambor) continues to transition, the family deals with dramatic changes and reversals. But there’s one constant in this installment: the Pfeffermans are as Jewish as ever. Here’s a run-down of this season’s best Jewish moments. 1. Elizah’s Crisis As the season opens,…
-
News 5 Jewish Things About the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants
If there’s a Jewish gene for smarts, the list of MacArthur Fellows might be proof positive. American Jews have been heavily represented among recipients of the “Genius Grants,” the $625,000 annual prizes given to the nation’s most promising artists, scholars, and writers. It’s no different this year, as laurels go to the composer Julia Wolfe…
-
News Wearing Hot Pink as Bad as Eating Pork, British Rabbi Says
Joseph wore a coat of many colors, but his mother Rachel shouldn’t have done the same. That’s according to London’s Rabbi Eliyahu Falk, who sent out a letter to ultra-Orthodox congregants likening women’s wearing of bright colors to downing non-kosher food. “It is truly loathsome to dress in such an inadequate manner… no less forbidden…
-
Breaking News Did Shabbat Keep One Orthodox Business Safe From Chelsea Bombing?
Shabbat is often a good excuse to cut out of work and relax. But on Saturday night in Chelsea, it was more than that, as employees at a Sabbath-observant store in Chelsea escaped harm from the Saturday night explosion in that neighborhood. Arriving at the King David Gallery two days after the blast, owner David…
-
News Could Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church Be A Mental Health Model for Synagogues?
Pastor Rick Warren and his wife Kay lost their own son Matthew to suicide in 2013, following severe depression and a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. That’s one reason why the two have become so passionate about ministering to those with mental illnesses as leaders of the Saddleback Church, a Southern Baptist congregation where weekly…
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion I’m a Jew of color. Ta-Nehisi Coates can’t apply US lessons to Israel.
- 2
Culture How my odious cousin Roy Cohn was responsible for creating Donald Trump — and me
- 3
Fast Forward Was the viral Ta-Nehisi Coates interview a hit piece or fair play? A journalism ethics expert weighs in.
- 4
Sports 5 Jewish things about the Mets — and why Jewish fans adore them
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Is anti-Zionism a sin? We asked the rabbi whose viral Yom Kippur sermon begged the question
-
Opinion For the sake of Israel, it’s time to retire the word ‘Zionism’
-
Culture A Forverts truck has turned up as a prop in a Timothée Chalamet movie
-
Fast Forward Why is there a Hebrew plaque in Trump’s office in ‘The Apprentice’ movie and what does it say?
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism