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Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, will visit Saudi Arabia on her first international trip this week. Lipstadt, now on leave from teaching at Emory University and one of the world’s most respected historians of the Holocaust, was nominated by President Joe Biden last year and joined the…
Democratic House members are urging the federal government to double funding for the State Department’s office of the special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism in the upcoming Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill. Rep. Lois Frankel of Florida, who is Jewish, has requested at least $2 million for the office of the special envoy, citing…
Graduating from Yeshiva University’s business school Thursday, Jamilla Pipersburg wasn’t expecting the commencement speaker, the nation’s first envoy charged to combat antisemitism, to address racism against Blacks. But Pipersburg, 29, an Afro Latina whose family is from Belize, was heartened that Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt spoke about the ways in which hatreds intersect. “This is the…
In her first appearance since the Senate confirmed her to the position of special envoy to combat and monitor antisemitism, Deborah E. Lipstadt, met on Friday with a group of Jewish cadets and midshipmen in the service academy who were attending the Jewish Warrior Weekend in Atlanta. Her appearance was scheduled before her confirmation. Lipstadt…
The United States Senate confirmed Deborah E. Lipstadt as the State Department’s envoy to combat and monitor antisemitism in an unanimous voice note on Wednesday night, after eight months of delays and a contentious committee hearing in which she was questioned for her tweets criticizing Republicans. “I am grateful to the president for nominating me,…
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the nomination of Deborah E. Lipstadt to be the State Department’s envoy to combat and monitor antisemitism by a bipartisan 13-9 vote after a long-delayed process. Two Republicans Senators, Mitt Romney from Utah and Marco Rubio from Florida, voted in favor of Lipstadt in the 22-member committee. If her…
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Tuesday blocked a vote on the nomination of Deborah E. Lipstadt as the Biden administration’s antisemitism envoy. Instead Johnson met with a group of truckers in Washington, D.C., in protest of the COVID-19 mandates and to support those imprisoned for participating in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. Jewish…
Nearly 200 days after President Biden announced that he intended to nominate Dr. Deborah Lipstadt to serve as U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, she finally had a confirmation hearing before the Senate. The Feb. 8 hearing came months after leading Jewish organizations called on the Senate to consider this critical nomination and…
