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.
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News Columbia’s Rashid Khalidi Hits Back at Charges of Anti-Semitism
Rashid Khalidi admits that recent comments about right-wing influences “infesting” American and Israeli politics could have been expressed better. But the Columbia professor and Palestinian rights advocate said he was not singling out Jews. “I recognize that it was infelicitous phrasing,” he wrote to the Forward, reflecting on what he said Tuesday, in an appearance…
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News Steve Mnuchin Failed to Disclose $100M in Assets — Blames ‘Oversight’
Steve Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Treasury Department, drew fierce rebukes from Senate Democrats after it was revealed that he failed to disclose more than $100 million in assets before his Thursday confirmation hearing. “I think as you all can appreciate, filling out these government forms is quite complicated,” Mnuchin, a Goldman…
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Fast Forward Studio 54 Founder Ian Schrager Gets Pardon From Obama on Tax Charge
More than three decades after he ran afoul of his federal taxes, New York City real estate developer Ian Schrager is receiving a pardon from outgoing President Barack Obama. Schrager, the founder of Manhattan’s famous Studio 54 nightclub, served almost two years in federal prison after being judged guilty on charges of tax evasion back…
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Fast Forward Mark Zuckerberg Sues to Make His $100M Hawaii Estate Even More Private
Mark Zuckberg might have started the world’s premier social network, but he’s not in the mood for new friends when’s he on holiday at his 700-acre estate on Kauai. He’s now suing hundreds of Native Hawaiian families who own small plots in the middle of his estate, giving them the right to traverse his lands,…
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News Will Ben Shapiro and Milo Yiannopoulos Debate Over Trump?
Milo Yiannopoulos keeps getting a question on his “Dangerous Faggot” tour of American university campuses: When is he going to debate his enemy and former Breitbart News colleague Ben Shapiro? The debate idea originally surfaced in May, after the “alt-right” darling Yiannopoulos challenged Shapiro to an argument on his Facebook page. “I’ve challenged Ben Shapiro…
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Fast Forward Richard Spencer and White Supremacists Aim for Bigger Platform With ‘AltRight.com’
Richard Spencer and his cadre of white supremacists launched a new online magazine on Martin Luther King Day, in what appears to be a bid to create their own version of National Review or The Nation. “AltRight.com brings together the best writers and analysts from Alt Right, in North America, Europe, and around the world,”…
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News BREAKING: Bomb Threats Called Into at Least 32 JCCs Around the Country
Updated to add context, tweets and reflecting total number of targeted JCCs. At least 32 Jewish community centers nationwide received bomb threats on Wednesday, with police responding to calls from locations in Florida, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Arizona and New Jersey, among others. “Bomb threats being reported at JCC’s in ME, MA, NY, CT,…
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Fast Forward Columbia Professor Accuses Right-Wing Jews of ‘Infesting’ American Politics
Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi is bemoaning that right-wing Jews are “infesting” the American government and influencing policy toward Israel. “There are a group of people, a lot of them in Israel, some of them in the United States, who live in a world of their own,” he told WBEZ’s Jerome McDonnell, criticizing President-elect Donald Trump…
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