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 German Jews Protest City Turning Destroyed Synagogue Site Into Public Pool
German Jews and their allies are demonstrating against an urban renewal project that has replaced the ruins of a Freiburg synagogue with a wading pool. “It was heartbreaking and a shock for us all – especially some older Jews who had survived the Holocaust and now had to watch the remains of the old synagogue…
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Fast Forward California Synagogue Returning Torah Scroll To Czech Town It Was Saved From
A synagogue in the San Francisco Bay Area is soliciting funds to restore and return a Torah scroll saved from the Nazis during their pillaging of Czechoslovakia’s Jewish communities. The Peninsula Sinai Congregation, which holds a Torah from the town of Olomouc, explained in a GoFundMe appeal: “During the Nazi era, thousands of Torah scrolls…
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Fast Forward Jewish Woman Helps Eritrean Refugees Get Settled In Brooklyn
A Jewish woman and her rabbi husband are helping two Eritrean refugees get settled in New York City – after the mother and daughter arrived in the United States earlier this month. “I got a call and they said, ‘Your friend Saba has been approved and would you consider being her U.S. sponsor,’” Mara Getz…
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Fast Forward Weiner Sentenced To 21 Months In Prison For Sexting With Minor
Former congressman Anthony Weiner was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison for exchanging lewd messages with a North Carolina teenager. Weiner, who represented New York as a Democrat and later ran for New York City mayor, was felled by a series of sexting scandals—the worst of which occurred last year as he was prosecuted…
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Fast Forward Twitter Users Call Trump ‘White Supremacist’ In #NaziBucketChallenge
It’s not the Ice Bucket Challenge, but instead the #NaziBucket Challenge – as Twitter users call out President Trump on the social media platform as a “white supremacist.” I’m liberal Jewish criminal defense attorney in reddest District in TX and I’m calling Trump a white supremacist! #NaziBucketChallenge — Sara Spector (@Miriam2626) September 15, 2017 I’m…
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Fast Forward Weiner’s Attorneys Say Sexting Accuser Wanted To Hurt Hillary’s Chances
Anthony Weiner’s attorneys are claiming that the teenager who busted him for sexting with her might have done so to sink Hillary Clinton’ presidential campaign, according to new court filings. In the documents, submitted ahead of Weiner’s sentencing for transferring obscene material to a minor, the ex-congressman’s lawyers allege that his accuser – a 15-year-old…
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Fast Forward Chuck Schumer Brags On Hot Mic: ‘Trump Likes Me’
Chuck Schumer was caught on a live microphone boasting that President Trump likes him – another sign of a warming relationship between the White House and the Senate minority leader on important issues like the budget and immigration. “He likes us. He likes me, anyway,” said the New York Democrat, talking into a hot mic…
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Fast Forward Jared’s White House Move ‘Crushed’ Kushners’ Deal For Troubled Manhattan Tower
Jared Kushner’s new gig at the White House has stymied his family’s effort to find a partner to redevelop their money-pit office tower headquarters in midtown Manhattan, according to a report in The Washington Post. Kushner Companies, the family-owned real estate firm, has been coming up short in finding a business willing to work together…
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