Special Envoy for Combating Anti-Semitism Assumes Post

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice administered the oath of office to the Department of State's first special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism.

Gregg Rickman, a former congressional staff member who helped investigate the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program and the retention by Swiss banks of assets belonging to Holocaust victims and their heirs, assumes this new position. His father survived the Nazi Holocaust, that murdered an estimated 6 million."If we have learned any lessons from the past, it is that anti-Semitism left unchecked results in disaster," he said.