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 ‘Big Pork’ Is Getting Into The Transplant Business — Is That Kosher?
Smithfield Foods, one of the nation’s largest pork suppliers, has announced that it’s forming a biosciences division that in the future might pioneer the transplantation of organs from pigs to humans. “We want to signal to the medical-device and science communities that this is an area we’re focused on — that we’re not strictly packers,”…
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Fast Forward Rabbi To Say Kaddish For Jews Who Saved Thomas Jefferson’s Estate
Meir Soloveichik, a prominent New York Orthodox rabbi, will recite the Jewish prayer for the dead at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, honoring the Jews who lived there and restored the property after the third president’s death. Uriah Levy, a Jewish patriot and Navy admiral, purchased the Virginia mansion from Jefferson’s debt-ridden heirs and set about refurbishing…
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Fast Forward Guess Who’s Coming For Dinner? It’s Mark Zuckerberg.
Mark Zuckerberg paid a surprise visit last week to one Ohio family, dropping in on them as part of his New Year’s resolution to meet people in every state of the country. “His staff people said, ‘I work for a very wealthy philanthropist in California and 90 percent of Americans use his product,’” Daniel Moore…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump’s Passover Ski Trip Cost Secret Service $66K
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner like many Jews took a vacation for Passover. But their weeklong trip to a deluxe Canadian ski resort was different in one respect: it came with a heavy price tag in costs for the Secret Service. According to government recordst, the security agency spent $66,538.42 on hotel costs for agents…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Richard Spencer Says It’s Time To ‘Make White Privilege Great Again’
Richard Spencer made a star turn on primetime Sunday night, declaring on CNN that he wants to “bathe in white privilege” and “make it great again.” How would you react? Black comedian @wkamaubell goes face-to-face w/ white nationalist Richard Spencer in #UnitedShades Sunday at 10p. pic.twitter.com/rQqyS15Lay — CNN (@CNN) April 29, 2017 The ‘alt-right’ founder…
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Fast Forward Hasid Runs For Mayor Of British City — As Far-Right Candidate
Rabbi Schneur Odze has proven to be an unorthodox candidate for mayor of the British city of Manchester. He’s the pick of the far-right U.K. Independence Party, has refused to shake hands with women rivals, burned a Bible and now his alleged penchant for kinky sex has come out into the open. “What Greater Manchester…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Gary Cohn Talks Up Obamacare Repeal
Gary Cohn, Donald Trump’s economic adviser and ex-chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs, bragged on Monday that the administration had the votes to repeal Obamacare. “This is going to be a great week,” Cohn told CBS’ “This Morning.” “We’re going to get healthcare down to the floor of the House. We’re convinced we got the…
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News UW BDS Activists Blamed Israel For Police Violence, Intimidated Jewish Students
Jewish students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are up in arms after the student government passed a resolution on Wednesday blaming Israel for police violence against African-Americans and calling for divestment from companies aiding Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, a move that was allegedly reached through under- handed tactic0 s0. “They have trampled on…
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