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
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News Alex Rubinstein Among 6 Journalists Charged With Inauguration Rioting
Reporters Evan Engel and Alex Rubinstein were arrested during a Washington, D.C. protest against President Donald Trump’s inauguration, in addition to four other journalists.. Engel and Rubinstein, the first with the online publication Vocativ and the second with the Kremlin-run RT America network, were covering an unruly demonstration on the cross of 12th and L…
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Fast Forward Neocon John Podhoretz Accuses Kellyanne Conway of Being ‘Stalinist’
John Podhoretz, the neoconservative editor of Commentary Magazine, said White House adviser Kellyanne Conway might be a red, but not the Republican kind. I remember when Kellyanne Conway was a conservative, not a Stalinist. https://t.co/MLesVuwIjc — John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) January 24, 2017 Podhoretz, part of the Never Trump movement, was referring to a conversation with…
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Fast Forward Milo Yiannopoulos Protester Shot Outside Seattle Event
Milo Yiannopoulos brags about causing mischief, but he might have gotten more than he bargained for last Friday night, when a protester at one of his events got shot outside the venue. The ‘alt-right’ fellow traveler and Breitbart tech editor was speaking at the University of Washington in Seattle, when an anti-fascist demonstrator Josh Dukes…
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Fast Forward Israel Warns: Don’t Swim With Sharks!
Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority is warning citizens to stay away from the shoreline near a power plant in Hadera, where around 150 sharks have gathered and attracted a bevy of thrill-seekers. “Encounters with sharks are uncontrollable and can endanger both the divers and the sharks,” the agency told the Algemeiner. “This means it is…
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Fast Forward Far Right Slams Palestinian March Organizer Linda Sarsour as Anti-Semite
Linda Sarsour, a Muslim civil rights activist, is facing charges of anti-Semitism after she helped organize the Women’s March on Washington. “The anti-Semite who organized the ‘Women’s March on Washington,’” screamed a headline from David Horowitz’s Front Page Magazine. The piece cited her opposition to Zionism, connection to family members who are supposedly imprisoned in…
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Fast Forward Ben Shapiro Mocks Looks of Women’s March Speakers Madonna and Ashley Judd
Ben Shapiro poked fun at the Women’s March on Washington on his Monday show, ridiculing the pro-choice stance of the participants and skewering in sexist terms the looks of premier speakers. Responding to Madonna’s speech at the march, in which she ruminated about blowing up the White House, the rightwing pundit called her a “crazy…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Vandalism Wave Hits London
A series of five anti-Semitic hate crimes hit London over the weekend, according to the Jewish Chronicle. In the most egregious case, Jews walking home from Friday night Shabbat services were pelted with eggs. In another, a brick was tossed threw a window, with swastikas drawn onto it. One homeowner left the house to find…
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Fast Forward Milo Yiannopoulos: Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer Are ‘Harpies’
Milo Yiannopoulos took aim at leftwing celebrities Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer during a post-election talk at West Virginia University. “Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer, we’ll get onto those harpies in a minute. I have three words of advice for these odious babies,” the Breitbart News editor said, uttering a three-word expletive that was bleeped on…
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