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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News Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati Hit With Swastika Graffiti
Police are investigating a swastika that was discovered Tuesday morning scrawled at the entrance to Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, one of the foundational institutions of Reform Judaism. “I think the placing of a swastika on a street sign, when we compare the events going on around the world, makes our little sign quite a…
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Fast Forward ‘Biblical’ Sheep Shipped To Holy Land — But Are They Really From Israel?
Gil and Jenna Lewinsky, a Canadian Jewish farming couple, had a different sort of aliyah in mind when they loaded more than 100 sheep on a cargo plane for Israel, animals they said hail from Biblical times. “You know that Israel is built on Jewish people returning. Now you have a case of an animal…
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Fast Forward Mein Kampf Flying Off the Shelves in Germany
Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” — presented in a new critical edition clocking in at almost 2,000 pages — is proving to be a runaway success at the bookstore in Germany, selling more than 85,000 copies and going into its sixth print run a year after its publication. The new edition, released by the Munich-based Institute…
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Fast Forward Milo Yiannopoulos Slams ‘Thick As Pig-S**t Media Jews’
Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos lobbed anti-Semitic insults at a BuzzFeed reporter in a talk in December, given as part of his “Dangerous Faggot” tour of American college campuses. Yiannopoulos told fans at Minnesota State University that Joe Bernstein, a media writer at BuzzFeed News, represents “a typical example of a sort of thick-as-pig shit…
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News Chuck Schumer Prepares Conciliatory ‘Big Tent’ Approach for Trump Age
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will have a tall order in the next months opposing President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle signal parts of his predecessor’s legacy. And if the first signs are a good indicator, he’s playing nice with his fellow Senate Democrats in order to hold the caucus together. “This is one of…
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Fast Forward Did Eric Trump’s Donations to Jewish Charity Violate Rules?
The Eric Trump Foundation appears to be implicated in a number of irregularities, dealing with conflicts of interest in its payments and patronizing the pet causes of its board members. According to a report report in the Associated Press, the foundation contracted for services with numerous subsidiaries of the Trump organization, for example hosting benefit…
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News Vandals Twist Family’s Arizona Menorah Display Into Swastika
On Friday morning, Naomi Ellis woke up to find the DIY menorah made of hardware supplies decorating her family’s yard in Chandler, Arizona into its spiritual opposite: a swastika. “We talk a lot about the importance of equality and tolerance, loving everybody no matter what,” she told the Washington Post, describing how she had to…
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News Arabs to Equal Jews in Israel, Palestinian Territories Next Year
If the math is right, then Jews and Arabs will number about the same in Israel and the Palestinian territories next year, according to a survey from the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics. According to the report, Israeli Jews and Arabs — including those who are citizens of Israel — will both total to 6.58…
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