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 Charity Peeved It Accidentally Donated To Richard Spencer
The largest source of monies for white nationalist Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute used to be a Georgia nonprofit that was not aware of the man’s politics. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, the Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area contributed $25,000 to NPI between 2013 and 2014, quite the…
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Fast Forward Republican Congressmen Embrace Russian Allegations Against Soros
George Soros has long been a target of the Kremlin, which has seen a conspiracy and a threat to its power in the billionaire’s funding of democratic elements in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. That line now seems to have been adopted by a few Republican congressmen, who sent a letter this week to Secretary…
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Fast Forward Kushners Aim To Make Flagship Building Second-Tallest In NYC
Kushner Companies, the real estate powerhouse that owns properties throughout the New York metro area, has been planning to remake its Fifth Avenue headquarters for some time. But according to the latest reports, the renovations could be far more ambitious than previously thought, adding extra floors and a hotel to the office tower. Under the…
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Fast Forward Milo Yiannopoulos Takes Another Hit, Loses Election For U.K. School Job
After resigning from Breitbart News, losing a book deal and being disinvited from the Conservative Political Action Conference in the wake of comments defending pedophilia, Milo Yiannopoulos has been having a tough few weeks. He got more bad news Tuesday, when he came in a distant fourth in a race for the rector’s position at…
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Fast Forward Meet Ezra Levant, The Jewish Founder of Canada’s ‘Alt-Right’ Rebel Media
Since the rise of the “alt-right,” a contemporary white nationalist movement, many Americans have looked to Canada as one of the few places where far-right populists have not gained traction. But not so fast. Our northern neighbor, it turns out, has its own Breitbart look-a-like, The Rebel or Rebel Media, and its founder is the…
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Fast Forward University Of Illinois Campus Community Condemns ‘Jewish Privilege’ Fliers
Following the circulation on campus of posters claiming that “ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege,” a wide range of faculty and student groups at the University of Illinois at Chicago denounced the fliers as hateful and potentially alienating. “We condemn these anti-Semitic assaults as well as the divisive suggestion that Black and Muslim…
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News Ohio State Hillel Expels LGBTQ Group Over Refugees Fundraiser
Following its decision to co-sponsor a fundraiser for queer refugees with Jewish Voice for Peace, Ohio State University’s gay Jewish group has been stripped of its organizational status and funding by the campus Hillel. “Hillel made us choose between the LGBTQ community and the Jewish community, but we can’t choose. I’m always going to be…
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