(March 31, 2022 / JNS) Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominee to the position of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, was officially confirmed to the position by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday night. Lipstadt’s nomination was brought to the floor of the Senate by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), who asked for unanimous consent on her nomination. “Right now, as we speak, the scourge of anti-Semitism is rising again in this country and around the world,” he said on the Senate floor, after speaking about how his two Jewish grandparents came to the United States to escape anti-Semitism...