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 Richard Spencer Hails Tom Brady as ‘Aryan Avatar’
Where others saw a riveting upset that made sports history, “alt-right” founder Richard Spencer saw a victory for white supremacy, hailing the Patriots’ win in the Super Bowl via a series of tweets that linked the team to his own ideology. Brady and Belichick are about to win bigly for Trump, the #AltRight, and White…
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Fast Forward California Student Wears KKK Hood to Recess
A student at a Bakersfield, California high school went out to recess last week wearing a KKK-style hood, said a classmate who disseminated pictures of the girl on the social media platform Snapchat. “I started Snapchatting it because that was terrible. I did not like that one bit,” Aidan Reed, a fellow student at Highland…
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Fast Forward Marine Le Pen Says Jews Should ‘Sacrifice’ Kippah To Fight Radical Islam
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front party, has a message for French Jews: stop wearing kippahs if you want to join the fight against radical Islam. “I mainly think the struggle against radical Islam should be a joint struggle and everyone should say, ‘There, we are sacrificing something,’” she told Israel’s…
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Fast Forward How Jared Kushner’s Making Shabbat Exciting Again — by Letting Trump Be Trump
Since Jared Kushner became the right hand man to the leader of the free world, folks have been puzzling over his Sabbath observance, when his phone’s off and he’s incommunicado. Jake Tapper, CNN’s chief political correspondent, offered an appropriate analogy to explain the connection between Saturdays and the palace intrigue. The nation hasn’t been this…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Super Bowl-Winning Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Praises Donald Trump
Patriots owner and Superbowl LI winner Robert Kraft offered kind words for President Donald Trump ahead of the game, praising the leader as a long-standing friend of his. “He’s been great to me over these past two decades,” he said on Fox News over the weekend, saying that he attended Trump’s inauguration and his last…
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Fast Forward New Game Lets You Punch ‘Nazis’ Like Richard Spencer, Milo Yiannopoulos
After January’s infamous punch-out of white supremacist Richard Spencer, there’s now a game that lets you relive the act and sock him, Milo Yiannopoulos, Adolf Hitler and others in the face. “Punch a Nazi,” modeled on a boxing game, allows you to lay into the three men on your phone or desktop, and was released…
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Fast Forward Chelsea Handler Headlines Democrats’ Retreat
Chelsea Handler will help House Democrats take a break from the bleak news, bringing her standup routine to their annual retreat this week in Baltimore, where she will be leading festivities with basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The confab’s theme will be “Fighting for All Americans,” and House Democrats are planning to discuss legislative strategy and…
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Fast Forward Milo Yiannopoulos Launches ‘Privilege Grant’ for White Male College Students
Milo Yiannopoulos is starting a scholarship fund on behalf a group that he says is underrepresented in higher education: white males. “The Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant is exclusively available to white men who wish to pursue their post-secondary education on equal footing with their female, queer and ethnic minority classmates,” the description on the site reads,…
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