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 WSJ: Like BuzzFeed, the Forward Has Made Some Tough Calls
BuzzFeed has attracted a lot of criticism for its decision to publish an unverified memo about President-elect Donald Trump’s purported ties with Russia and sexual behavior there. But as Seth Lipsky wrote Friday in The Wall Street Journal, it’s hard to know what the website, as a relatively minor upstart in the journalism world, should…
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Steve Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury Secretary, has announced that he will sell off some investments and quit a number of corporate board, if the Senate approves his nomination. According to a letter mailed to senators, Mnuchin has pledged to liquidate his interests in companies including Berkshire Hathaway, Citigroup, Microsoft and Verizon within…
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Between attacking CNN and BuzzFeed at his Wednesday press conference, President-elect Donald Trump found time to praise the chief executive of Marvel Comics, Ike Perlmutter, whom he said was an influential adviser on veterans’s affairs. Who’s this fellow, and why did Trump hail him as “one of the great men of business?” Here are five…
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Fast Forward Workboots That Leave Swastika Tracks Yanked by Company
Work boots or jackboots? That’s a question that a Reddit user raised after getting new shoes for his job, discovering that they left an imprint that closely resembled a swastika. “There was an angle I didn’t get to see when ordering my new work boots,” the man wrote on Reddit, sharing a photo of the…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Carl Bernstein Blasts Kellyanne Conway as ‘Propaganda Minister’ for Donald Trump
Carl Bernstein had some tough remarks for President-elect Donald Trump’s adviser Kellyanne Conway, slamming her as the incoming leader’s “propaganda minister.” “It’s time to talk about what we do as journalists, and what propaganda ministers do, and that is what she is, is a propaganda minister,” the reporter of Watergate fame said on Anderson Cooper’s…
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Fast Forward Anthony Weiner Pleads With Huma Abedin: Let’s Stay Together
After his sexting embarrassed her and possibly cost boss Hillary Clinton the election, Anthony Weiner is apparently pleading with Huma Abedin not to divorce him. “He knows he’s hit rock bottom. But now they are both out of the limelight, they can focus on their son. They are actually getting on pretty well, and he…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldiers ‘Catfished’ by Fake Hamas Cuties on Facebook
Some Israeli soldiers now know better than they might like that you can be anyone on the Internet, following the country’s Military Intelligence Unit foiling a Hamas plot in which the militant group stole information from troops by posing as attractive women on social media. “Anyone who was infected, is not infected anymore. If it…
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News Staten Island JCC Receives Bomb Threat, Defaced With Swastika
New York’s hate crime wave made land on Staten Island Wednesday, after a swastika and bomb threat was found at a Jewish Community Center in the borough. Officials at the center, located in a park filled stretch of Staten Island, reported the incident on Wednesday morning to the New York City police department, which discovered…
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