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 WATCH: Holocaust Survivor Returns To Auschwitz And Remembers
Seven decades after he was freed from Auschwitz, Rabbi Nissen Mangel returned this week to give a speech on the grounds where once sat crematoria that gassed more than a million Jews. Mangel recounts in the powerful video his experiences as a 10-year-old child being deported to Auschwitz with his family and going through the…
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Fast Forward Female Orthodox Law Partners Wear Pink To Prosecute Criminals
Move over Elle Woods. Orthodox Jews Mindy Meyer and Sara Shulevitz, practicing criminal law in New York City while donning matching pink dresses, a statement they say is as much about fashion as feminism. “We comply with Orthodox Jewish rules of modesty, but we like to wear pink,” Shulevitz, 40, told The New York Daily…
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Fast Forward Companies Kvetch At Google For Pairing Ads With Extremist Content
Google is under fire this week, as numerous high-profile European companies withdraw or threaten to withdraw from the search engine’s lucrative ad business over concerns that their promotions are being placed alongside extremist, racist content. Companies that have ditched Google, or might do so, include HSBC, the Royal Bank of Scotland, British telecom giant Vodafone…
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Yuval Harari has rocketed to the top of the American best-seller lists with his new book “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.” And the podcast-sphere can’t get enough of it. “Homo Deus,” which sketches out the rise of artificial intelligence and the Israeli professor’s predictions for the future of mankind, follows up on “Sapiens,”…
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Fast Forward Mennonite Sect Wrestles Publicy With Its Nazi Ties In Paraguay
Decades after officials worried they might be sheltering the infamous Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, members of the Mennonite sect in Paraguay are coming to terms with their historical ties with the Third Reich. Mennonites are supposed to embrace non-violence and shun political life. But that was not the case in Fernheim, the Paraguay settlement where…
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Fast Forward Chuck Schumer Willing To Shut Down Government Over Budget Fight
Following President Trump’s controversial budget proposal boosting the military and slashing Meals on Wheels and other safety net programs, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that his caucus is willing to shut down the government to defeat the White House’s blueprint. “If they put those poison pill amendments in and try to shove them down…
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Fast Forward Why Does Steve Bannon Admire A French Nazi Collaborator?
Steve Bannon has a French sweetheart, and it’s not Marine Le Pen, the nationalist-populist politician who could become the country’s president in this spring’s election. According to media reports in France, the White House chief strategist recently expressed his admiration for the far-right intellectual Charles Maurras, a notorious anti-Semite sentenced to life in prison after…
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Fast Forward ‘End Jewish Privilege’ Poster Circulates on Chicago College Campus
Anti-Semitic fliers calling for an end to “Jewish privilege” have been strewn all over the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, according to student Eva Zeltser, who posted an image of the poster with her commentary on Tuesday. “Ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege,” the flier shouts, purporting to show with…
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