There is no topic that interests sociologists more than anti-Semitism. New books and studies on this topic appear in droves, and not because of extreme anti-Semitic acts in the modern world. It can be definitely said that in America, in Russia, and of course,in Israel Jews today live safer and better than ever. But the the multitude of reasons, the diverse groundlessness, the rational and mystical background behind anti-Semitism make it a unique phenomenon.

David Harris' famous ''non-format'' article on the second ''Freedom Flottila''

EAJC General Council Member Vyacheslav Likhachev comments upon the anti-Semitic speech of Yuri Mihalchishin, and examined the Deputy's competence, eloquence, and influence and position in the Galitchyna's political life.

There hundreds of Jewish periodicals (sometimes not even real periodicals) in the former post-Soviet space. Almost every Jewish organizations dreams of having its own, even a small one, printed publication. Most of them are departmental newsletters or modest papers with the circulation of factory newspapers. Along with that, one cannot help noticing a small but impressive body of magazines, many of which are radically different in their contents and printing quality from the general “budget-funded” background of the Jewish printed mass media.

From the editor: the political spectrum of the Jewish organizations that emerged in Poland between the two wars became to a large degree the main factor in forming the range of views and opinions of the future of the Jewish life not only in the Diaspora but even in the yishuv. Therefore, we thought the political life of the Polish Jews in the above-mentioned years is of more than just regional significance and would be of interest to our readers.

One of the most interesting ethnic and denominational groups that reside in the territory of the Crimean peninsula are the Crimean Karaites.