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 Parents of JCC Bomb Hoax Suspect: ‘We Are So, So Sorry’
The parents of Michael Kadar, the Israeli teenager accused of launched fake bomb threats at dozens of American Jewish institutions and starting his own Web-based document forgery and weapons sales operations, said their son was not responsible for his actions given severe neurological deficits. “We are so, so, sorry,” the two told the Times of…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Richard Blumenthal Demands Action On Michael Flynn’s Russia Cash
Richard Blumenthal demanded punishment for former national security adviser Michael Flynn after revelations that he received payments from the Russian government without pre-approving or disclosing that compensation, as required by federal law. Blumenthal: “powerful, mounting, incontrovertible evidence that there has been a violation of criminal law” by Flynn; “must be … prosecuted” pic.twitter.com/cK25d7Efgm — Bradd…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Jake Tapper Tells Viewers To ‘Demand Evidence’ From Trump
Jake Tapper ripped into President Trump’s claim that former President Obama ordered espionage against him, calling it classical “fake news” and despairing over how many voters seemed to have believed the unsupported assertion. “The president and his team kept pushing ways to make this evidence-free claim somewhere, sort of, possibly in the neighborhood of not…
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Fast Forward What Was Jesse Watters Saying About Ivanka And A Microphone?
Jesse Watters is taking a time-out after making an ill-advised sexual innuendo about Ivanka Trump, in what is an unhappy coincidence for his network, still reeling from the fallout of the Bill O’Reilly harassment scandal. “I don’t really get what’s going on here, but I really liked how she was speaking into that microphone,” Watters…
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Fast Forward Did Jared Kushner Have Real Estate Links To Shady Israeli Billionaire?
Jared Kushner and his family business has now been linked to real estate transactions with an Israeli billionaire under investigation in four countries for bribery and corrupt practices. According to The New York Times, Kushner partnered in 2012 with Raz Steinmetz, whose family got rich in the diamond business, to purchase $190 million worth of…
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Fast Forward Reform Movement Leader Denounces Israel’s BDS Travel Ban
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, leader of the Union for Reform Judaism, sent an open letter Wednesday to Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu protesting a new travel ban barring supporters of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against the state and its West Bank settlements. “I have been a fierce personal opponent of BDS and boycotts against Israel,” the Reform…
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Fast Forward Mnuchin Says Trump Won’t Publish Returns As Trump Starts Tax Reform Push
As the White House presses a plan to lower individual and corporate taxes, President Trump still will not be releasing his own tax returns – a departure from decades of presidential practice. Mnuchin: Trump has no intention of releasing tax returns pic.twitter.com/dU9Ylw1jLT — Axios (@axios) April 26, 2017 “The president has no intention, the president…
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Fast Forward STUNNING: How The Infamous Arch Of Titus Looked In Roman Heyday
Walking around the ruins of ancient Rome, one gets the sense it was a drab place filled with bland white stone. But using state-of-the-art technology, archaeologists Steven Fine, Donald Sanders and Peter Schertz have produced a rendering of what the infamous Arch of Titus – a monument to Rome’s 70 A.D. victory over the Jews…
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