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 Progressive Jews Enter ‘Shadow Cabinet’ Against Trump
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Swastikas and other hate graffiti were found on several buildings on the Shawnee Mission East High School campus in Prairie Village, Kansas last Friday, in what local authorities are saying might have the been result of a rivalry between Shawnee East and rival Shawnee Mission South. “It’s so ignorant that you would bring up a…
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Fast Forward Jake Tapper Mocks Trump Press Secretary Over ‘Birther’ Snafu
After Sean Spicer complained that The New York Times failed to get his birthplace right in a weekend story, Jake Tapper trolled the White House press secretary with a reference to the “birther” canard that boss Donald Trump used to denigrate former President Obama. Questions over Spicer’s birthplace surfaced after The Times referred to him,…
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Bernie Sanders and Bill Nye (the Science Guy) hosted a conversation about the perils of climate change Monday, bringing their talk to Facebook Live in order to raise consciousness about an environmental issue they fear the new administration will backslide on. “Join me and Bill Nye at 10:30 a.m. ET tomorrow on Facebook Live for…
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For those who fret about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health, it turns out that her exercise regimen might be more rigorous than yours. Or at least that’s what one reporter found when he spent an hour and a half simulating her routine with personal trainer Bryant Johnson. “As for Ginsburg’s continued vitality, after going through…
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Fast Forward Searching For Kosher Food Where The Soviets Made A Jewish State
Observant Jews in far-flung locales face difficulty in getting kosher food, but perhaps nowhere is the challenge more acute than in Siberia’s Birobidzhan region, where a community of a few thousand — the remnant of a failed Soviet experiment in creating a Jewish mini-state – is trying to procure a steady supply of kosher meat…
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Fast Forward Where Are Jared And Ivanka On Trans Bathrooms?
Advocates for LGBT rights are looking to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to speak out against new guidelines that strip protection from trans students – and they’re coming up empty. The new guidelines, published Wednesday, reverse an Obama-era ruling that high schools must allow transgender students to use the bathrooms matching their gender identities. Jewish…
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Fast Forward Syrian Jewish Businessman Snags Priciest Home in Brooklyn
Joseph Sitt, the founder of the global real estate firm Thor Equities, is the secretivebuyer of Brooklyn’s priciest residential property last year. The $11.6 million house is in Gravesend, the seat of the Syrian Jewish community that Sitt was born into and to which he still belongs. The house is 5,000 square feet, and its…
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