Close to 100 local Jewish federations and Jewish Community Relations Councils are urging the Senate to confirm Deborah Lipstadt as antisemitism monitor, citing the attack on a Colleyville, Texas synagogue last month. “This latest, horrific attack makes clear that the Senate must expeditiously confirm this position so that America’s diplomatic corps has an able leader to combat the global threat of antisemitism,” the organizations said in a letter sent Monday and initiated by the Jewish Federations of North America, an umbrella group for Jewish federations. The letter was addressed to Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., the chairman of the Foreign Relations...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
