State Department’s Anti-Semitism Envoy
May 19, 2006 at 8:34 am
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week named Gregg Rickman as the State Department’s first special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism around the world, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA).
Two things caught Extreme Mortman’s eye about this story.
1) Rickman and Mortman are both alumni of the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors, the agency that runs America’s international broadcasting operations.
2) The JTA story quotes William Daroff, vice president for public policy of the United Jewish Communities: “Gregg Rickman, working with Sen. D’Amato, is almost single-handedly the one who uncovered the corruption and the immorality of the Swiss banks.” Thus allowing us to update our All Things Daroff feature.
JTA caption: Newly appointed anti-Semitism monitor, Gregg Rickman, second from left, speaks with Sen. George Voinovich, left, the UJC´s William Daroff, third from left, and the WJC´s Shai Franklin in 2002.
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