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 Reconstructionists Add Synagogue In Italy – Third Outside U.S.
The Reconstructionist movement is adding another affiliate abroad this week, as it welcomes into its ranks a fledging synagogue in the Italian region of Calabria – where before the synagogue’s foudning, there hadn’t been a schul in centuries. “We are thrilled to welcome our first Italian affiliate to our movement,” Rabbi Deborah Waxman, head of…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Slam Hillel For Taking Funds From Right-Wing Israeli Group
More than 100 rabbis and rabbinical students have signed a letter calling on Hillel to sever ties with a right-wing Israeli funder and drop its guidelines on discourse about Israel. In the letter, the religious leaders – many of them identified as LGBT – denounce Hillel’s links with Mosaic United, an initiative sponsored by Israel’s…
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Fast Forward Cuteness Alert! Ivanka Plays On White House Lawn With Arabella
As President Trump and first lady Melania Trump hosted their first congressional picnic on Thursday, Ivanka Trump was seen at the event, too – frolicking with her daughter on the White House lawn. In pictures from the event, the first daughter – married to Jared Kushner and the mother of three children – is seen…
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Fast Forward Jason Greenblatt Live Tweets Israel Trip – And Doesn’t Win Fans
President Trump isn’t the only person within his administration sending out an unfiltered stream of messages on Twitter. Middle East adviser Jason Greenblatt seems to be following his lead, live-tweeting updates from a trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories this week. Today I paid a shiva call to family of Hadas Malka. She was…
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News Winning Her Poignant Battle To Become Jewish Storyteller — In Shadow Of Cancer
For several years, Phyllis Binik-Thomas dreamt of becoming a storyteller, or maggid, to take her commitment intergenerational Jewish communication to another level. She wasn’t going to let cancer prevent her from reaching that goal. As beaming family and friends gathered in her Cincinnati living room, Binik-Thomas was ordained as a maggid educator on Tuesday afternoon…
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Fast Forward Ehud Barak Warns Israel Sliding Into ‘Apartheid’
Ehud Barak warned on Wednesday that Israel was on a “slippery slope to apartheid” given the current state of play with Palestinians, in stark comments from the former prime minister and leader of the left-wing Labor Party. Speaking to the German station Deutsche Welle, Barak said that the growth of the Palestinian population would mean…
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Fast Forward Jill Stein Won’t Apologize For Green Party Presidential Bid
Jill Stein has no regrets even as many accuse the Green Party candidate of having been a spoiler last November for Hillary Clinton. “I consider it a great honor that the party and our prior campaign for president is suddenly being attacked outside of an election season,” she told Politico, reflecting on the controversy. “There…
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Fast Forward Israeli Kids Help Excavate 900-Year-Old Crusader Fortress
Israel is home to some of the world’s richest archaeological treasures – from the Iron Age, to the time of the Hebrews, to the Middle Ages, through the modern period. Now, students in the Modiin-Maccabim-Re’ut are helping uncover some of those antiquities, participating in excavation efforts near their hometown. Recently, the kids participated in the…
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