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 WATCH: Muslim Teen Helps Nab Jewish Woman’s Attacker on NYC Subway
Ahmed Khalifa is winning recognition from the community after helping chase down a homeless man who slapped an Orthodox Jewish woman in the face on December 27. “It was a very hard slap, I almost could feel the slap. He was 6-foot-6, and a very big, big guy,” said the 17-year-old Muslim high school student,…
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Fast Forward Christian Ministers Call for Montanans to Display Menorahs in Solidarity
Following threats against the Jewish community in Whitefish, Montana, more than two dozen of the state’s faith leaders are urging Montanans to put menorahs in their windows this season to demonstrate support for Jews. “As an act of solidarity, we invite people across Montana to show support by displaying menorahs in their windows this season….
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Fast Forward It’s Closing Time at the Carnegie Deli
After announcing its closure a couple months ago, Manhattan’s Carnegie Deli will serve up its last pastrami sandwich on December 30. It’s an iconic spot, open for almost eight decades, where Woody Allen filmed scenes for “Broadway Danny Rose,” a monument to New Yorkism. But mostly these days it draws tourists, as the $20 price…
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News This Dan Goldstein Didn’t Heckle Ivanka — He’s Still Getting Harassed
Dan Goldstein is an all-too-common name, as more than one New York law firm found out after one Daniel Jennings Goldstein, a lawyer, heckled Ivanka Trump aboard a JetBlue flight to Florida last week. According to the folks at Shiboleth, a New York based group, their office was inundated with negative and threatening calls and…
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Books ‘Alt-Righter’ Milo Yiannopoulos Inks $250,000 Book Deal
Richard Spencer, inventor of the term “alt-right” is leading Nazi salutes. Cadillac is recruiting “neo-Nazis” for a commercial. And now provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos signing a book deal worth $250,000. Yiannopoulos identified himself early on with the “alt-right,” but more with the folks who disdain what they call “political correctness” than with the ones who use…
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Fast Forward Petition to Fire Husband of Ivanka Trump Heckler Gains Signatures
Following his husband’s altercation with Ivanka Trump aboard a JetBlue flight, Marc Lasner is facing calls for his head, as thousands sign a petition to get him sacked from his professorship at New York’s Hunter College. “We believe his immature and cruel harassment of Ivanka Trump and her family at JFK airport should be met…
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Fast Forward WATCH: When ‘Hanukkah Harry’ Saved Christmas
Christians have Santa Claus, but Jews got “Hanukka Harry”
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News Brooklyn Menorah Displays Vandalized in Anti-Semitic Hate Crime
Four days into Hanukkah, Brooklyn Rabbi Mendy Hecht discovered two public menorah displays vandalized on Tuesday morning, in what the New York Police Department and Parks Department are investigating as an anti-Semitic hate crime. “Taken out of its place, torn apart, broken. … That’s something more than I’ve ever experienced,” the Chabad rabbi told DNAInfo,…
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