Trump envoy’s push to eliminate standalone Holocaust office divides Jewish leaders

Trump envoy’s push to eliminate standalone Holocaust office divides Jewish leaders

For months, Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, the Trump administration’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, has worked to fold the State Department’s Holocaust envoy office into his own, a congressional source told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. That effort would absorb the State Department’s Office of the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, which oversees U.S. policy on Holocaust-era restitution, education and remembrance, into Kaploun’s off…