Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, speaks at the Israeli-American Council annual summit in Washington, D.C., in September 2024.
(JNS) - Professor and Jewish historian Deborah Lipstadt, former U.S. envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism from 2022 to 2025, is set to receive Bar-Ilan University's 2026 Jonathan Sacks Institute Prize for Outstanding Achievement as a Public Intellectual.
The award, established by the Gewurz family of Montreal in memory of Samuel Gewurz, honors figures whose work advances the ideas and moral vision of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, who died in 2020.
It comes with $32,500, which will be presented to Lipstadt at a Bar-Ilan...
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