The threat of civil war appears all too real in Egypt amid economic, social and political crisis, yet Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood surge blindly on, not ready to let go of the golden prize achieved after nearly a century.

The Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine (Vaad of Ukraine) is worriedly observing the public use of anti-Semitic rhetoric by Ukrainian radical nationalists, above all – by members of the political party All-Ukrainian Union “Svoboda.”

Oleksiy Khamrai, Doctor of Philology, Head of Master’s Program in Jewish Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy speaks on the Jewish Studies program recently opened in NaUKMA.

[...] Let the mistake of using the Russian imperial administrative territorial division in the context of the XVII century be on the heads of the journalists, even though this mistake is in many ways telling. But blood libel in the news of the leading Russian state channel is harder to let pass. Even the loyal Federation of Jewish Communities of Russian (FJCR) has expressed its “great surprise and disappointment at the unprofessional and bizarre comment of the “Russia 24” channel, one of the leading Russian media outlets, on the visit of the Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All the Rus' Kirill to the Nikolsky Cathedral Church in the city of Belostok.”

Morsy’s Egypt is a new country, with a new religious agenda that it is eager to implement.