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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Fast Forward Fox News Scion James Murdoch Gives $1M To ADL After Charlottesville
James Murdoch, the son and heir apparent of News Corp magnate Rupert Murdoch, pledged on Thursday to donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League in an impassioned letter in which he condemned President Trump’s actions after the weekend violence in Charlottesville. “I’m writing to you in a personal capacity, as a concerned citizen and a…
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Fast Forward Hindu-Jewish Lesbian Couple Tie Knot In Touching Interfaith Ceremony
A Hindu woman and a Jewish woman tied the knot this week in a ceremony that’s being hailed as Britain’s first interfaith lesbian wedding. “It’s really nice to now have a Hindu wedding here, because it brings both of us together and completes both of us in my eyes,” Miriam Jefferson told the Daily Mail,…
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Fast Forward Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1M To ADL After Charlottesville
Apple CEO Tim Cook is putting his money where his mouth is on diversity and acceptance, announcing that he will give $1 million each to the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center following the weekend violence in Charlottesville. In a letter to workers, Cook announced the donations and encouraged his colleagues to also…
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Fast Forward Bannon Dismisses ‘Alt-Right’ As ‘Losers’ In Off-The-Script Interview
Following Anthony Scaramucci’s accidental interviewonversation with the New Yorker, one might think Trump administration staffers would have set rules of engagement with reporters. But Steve Bannon sounded off to the American Prospect without asking to go off the record. In the most surprising twist from the interview, Bannon appeared to distance himself from the “alt-right,”…
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Fast Forward Jewish Texas Politician Helps Sink Anti-Transgender ‘Bathroom Bill’
The Jewish leader of Texas’ State House of Representatives helped crush an anti-transgender “bathroom bill,” cementing his reputation as a moderate Republican in a state where the party has increasingly drifted rightward. “I’m not embarrassed to say that I know how to govern without being an extremist,” House Speaker Joe Straus told the New York…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Daily Stormer Site Dumped Again, By Cybersecurity Site
The Daily Stormer has lost its cybersecurity protection, after the firm CloudFlare decided to terminate its relationship with the neo-Nazi site run by Andrew Anglin. “My rationale for making this decision was simple: the people behind the Daily Stormer are assholes and I’d had enough,” wrote company chief executive Matthew Prince in an e-mail to…
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Fast Forward Charlottesville Jews Were Forced Out The Back Door By Neo-Nazi Marchers
As white supremacists converged on a Charlottesville park for their violent “Unite the Right” rally, some of them menaced the city’s historic Beth Israel synagogue during Shabbat services, standing across from the building with semi-automatic weapons in their hands. “Had they tried to enter, I don’t know what I could have done to stop them,…
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Fast Forward Richard Spencer May Speak At University Of Florida
Richard Spencer, the “alt-right” leader at the center of the weekend’s Charlottesville crisis, may speak on the University of Florida’s campus in September, thanks to rules that allow outside groups to hold events at the public college. “For many in our community, including myself, this speaker’s presence would be deeply disturbing. What we’ve watched happen…
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