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 Diane Feinstein Rips Bibi Over Settlements
California Senator Dianne Feinstein laced into Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, after she said a decision by the Israeli cabinet to approve the creation of a new West Bank settlement proved the government was not serious about peace. The announcement, the Jewish Democrat wrote in a statement, “demonstrates once again Netanyahu’s not serious…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Supreme Court Upholds Woman’s Divorce From Comatose Husband
Israel’s high court on Thursday ruled unanimously against an effort from Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef to retroactively cancel the divorce of a woman from her coma-stricken husband. “It is unacceptable that a divorce given by a rabbinical court, equivalent to a ruling in a civil court, can be retroactively annulled,” wrote the judges in their…
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Fast Forward Ezra Cohen-Watnick Identified As White House Source In Trump Russia Probe
A Jewish White House official has been identified as a source for claims from House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes that President Trump and his aides were captured by U.S. surveillance in the lead-up to the presidential election. Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, was identified to the New…
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Fast Forward Jared And Ivanka ‘Exfoliate’ Friends As Social Circle Pushes Back Against Trump
Jared Kushner has lost so many friends since he became a close adviser to President Trump that he has even coined a term for it: exfoliation. “We live in a world and time that are interesting,” he is said to have told investor Wiley Cerilli. “I am seeing which friendships break in the wind.” Kushner…
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Fast Forward Rome Medieval Cemetery Bares Evidence Of Stark Anti-Semitism
Archaeologists working in Italy have discovered a Jewish cemetery from the Middle Ages, complete with dozens of skeletons and centuries-old evidence of the persecution the community faced in a city ruled by the Catholic Church. “I am very happy we have found important information about this cemetery, perhaps for the first time ever,” Daniela Rossi,…
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Fast Forward Right-Wing Publisher Will Print Milo Yiannopoulos Book
A month after Milo Yiannopoulos lost a book deal thanks to comments defending pedophilia, the ex-Breitbart editor now has a publisher for his memoir titled “Dangerous.” “They’d be mad not to, wouldn’t they?” Yiannopoulos wrote to BuzzFeed News, after the news that Regnery Publishing would release his book. The firm has a reputation for printing…
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News Conservatives Welcome Non-Jews — But Will They Be Second-Class Citizens In Synagogue?
When Holly first kissed Jeff on a dance floor back in the 1990s, she was a college freshman from Staten Island and he was a frat brother from Long Island. They both had New York accents. He thought the petite brunette was Jewish. But Holly Rizzuto was and still is an Italian Catholic, named Holly…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump Taking Official Job In White House
Ivanka Trump will become an unpaid special assistant in her father’s White House, the Trump administration announced late Wednesday, ending months of speculation about whether the first daughter would have a formal role in the government. “I will … serve as an unpaid employee in the White House office, subject to all of the same…
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