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 Auschwitz Gas Chamber Video Earns Rebuke For Louisiana Lawmaker
A Louisiana congressman is under fire after filming a five-minute video in and around a gas chamber at Auschwitz in he which he discussed the Holocaust and the need for America to maintain a strong national defense. “The world’s a smaller place now than it was in World War II. The United States is more…
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Fast Forward Gary Cohn Carves Out Center Of Power In Trump White House
Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs exec and Trump economic adviser, has apparently become one of the biggest power brokers within the White House. Cohn was critical to preventing the United States from withdrawing from the Nafta trade agreement with Canada and Mexico and has been a chief architect of administration proposals on infrastructure and…
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Fast Forward Controversial Ritual Bath in Ultra-Orthodox Town Vandalized
A ritual bath under construction in the Hasidic development in Bloomingburg has allegedly been defaced with Nazi imagery. According to Lonnie Soury, a spokesman for the Town of Mamakating, where Bloomingburg is located, the Anti-Defamation League received reports about the hateful graffiti from the builders of the mikveh. The ADL was not immediately reachable for…
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Fast Forward U.S. Amb. Friedman Meets With J Street, Which He Once Called ‘Worse Than Kapos’
United States Ambassador to Israel David Friedman met with a delegation organized by the left-wing organization J Street on Monday, despite having previously called the dovish group “worse than kapos” — the Jews who assisted the Nazis during the Holocaust. The delegation included seven Democratic congressmen and J Street’s senior leadership. Friedman had vowed at…
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Fast Forward Michael Cohen Reportedly Sidelined In Trump Circle
Michael Cohen, a longtime attorney for the Trump Organization, has apparently lost his spot in the president’s inner circle after being a cable attack-dog for much of the presidential race. According to a report in The New York Times, Cohen expected to be offered a top position in the administration (he was not), and saw…
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Fast Forward Maker Of Trump’s CNN Video Has Dabbled In Anti-Semitism
The Internet troll who made a video of President Trump attacking CNN has also made racist ant anti-Semitic memes, sharing them on the Reddit social media site. Here’s another meme from the guy Trump tweeted, this one showing CNN personalities with Jewish stars. pic.twitter.com/BJoJ751eMQ — Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 2, 2017 Here’s the man…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Man Fined For Underwear On Israel Beach
A Palestinian man was fined more than $200 – or almost a month’s worth of wages – for going to an Israeli beach while dressed in underpants rather than a bathing suit. Hakam Habash, a middle-aged factory worker from Nablus, was slapped with the fine as he attempted to enter a beach in Netanya after…
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Fast Forward Who’s Jared Kushner Talking To? Some People You Might Not Have Guessed
You may never have heard the reticent Jared Kushner speak, but he’s apparently talking to a half-dozen confidants and friends about what to do with his new-found power in Washington, D.C. According to Politico, Kushner’s circle of phone buddies – some of whom he speaks to daily – include former Ted Cruz operative Jeff Roe,…
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