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 Chuck Schumer: Neil Gorsuch Avoided Questions ‘Like the Plague’ During Meeting
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer emerged from a Tuesday meeting with Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch unimpressed, telling reporters that the judge dodged touchy issues. “He is clearly a very smart, polite and capable man who loves being a judge,” the New York senator told the press after a closed-door interview with President Donald Trump’s…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Jake Tapper’s Best Moments (So Far) Under Trump
Jake Tapper, CNN’s chief political correspondent, has not been pulling his punches since President Donald Trump and his aides took the White House. With his sharp retorts, to-the-point fact checks and cutting humor, the reporter has emerged as something of a champion for a news media – and a certain idea of truth – that’s been…
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Fast Forward Jamaica Kincaid, Black Jewish Author, Scoops Israeli Cultural Prize
Jamaica Kincaid, the Jewish, Caribbean-born author of five semi-autobiographical novels, won a prestigious Israeli prize this week in recognition of her cultural impact and literary accomplishment. Administered by Tel Aviv University, the Dan David Prize went to Kincaid because she’s “one of the most important and influential writers today,” the awards committee wrote. Previous recipients…
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Fast Forward Rising Star Jason Kander’s New Cause: ‘Let America Vote’
After narrowly losing a Senate race in deep-red Missouri, Jewish politician Jason Kander is heading back to the ballot box, this time as the head of a new group protecting voting rights. The organization, Let America Vote, will fight so-called “voter identification laws,” passed in red states to fight the almost non-existent problem of voter…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Al Franken Denounces Betsy DeVos As ‘Fundamentally Incompetent’
Al Franken, the Minnesota comedian-turned-senator, was dead serious in his critique of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, as she was confirmed to her post on Tuesday after a tie in the Senate. “It’s not a job for amateurs who don’t know the first thing about education,” he said in a statement issued after the Senate voted….
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Fast Forward WATCH: Protesting Rabbis Get Arrested on Purpose Outside Trump Hotel
Eighteen rabbis were arrested on Monday night after sitting down in the street in front of New York’s Trump International Hotel in protest against President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries. Accompanied by hundreds of protesters, the march started on the Upper West Side and wended its way to the…
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Fast Forward Lena Dunham Blames Weight Loss on Trump-Induced Trauma
Lena Dunham says it’s not an exercise regimen or the paleo diet that’s helped her lose weight. Instead the actress blames the trauma of President Trump for stopping her from eating. “Everyone’s been asking like, ‘What have you been doing?’ And I’m like, ‘Try soul-crushing pain and devastation and hopelessness and you, too, will lose…
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Fast Forward Seth Klarman, the New Jewish Warren Buffet, Bearish on Trump
Seth Klarman, the billionaire financier whose advice books sell for thousands of dollars on the Internet, is here to the burst the bubble of his fellow investors: Don’t get your hopes up about a Trump economic boom. Most concerning for Klarman is the new president’s personality. “The erratic tendencies and overconfidence in his own wisdom…
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