Who is a Jew? familiar with and willing to vouch for the Jewishness of their maternal lineage or the validity of their conversion. There have been several attempts to convene representatives of the three major movements to formulate a practical solution to this issue. To date, these have failed, though all parties concede the importance of the issue is greater than any sense of rivalry among them. Ethnic Jew is a term generally used to describe a person of Jewish parentage and background who does not necessarily actively practice Judaism, but still identifies with Judaism or other Jews culturally or fraternally, or both. The
Alexander Butlerov Chemistry Institute chemistry of nanomaterials, pharmaceutical chemistry. Proposed model and physio-chemical basis of self-assembly of nanoscale of hyperbranched polymers, set new approaches to understanding the mechanisms of gene transfection and targeted drug delivery. The Department works at the intersection of organic chemistry (chemistry of natural products, chemistry of macrocyclic compounds, chemistry of elementorganic compounds), supramolecular chemistry (solution and self-process chemistry) and molecular biology.The head of the Department is Professor Igor S. Antipin, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science, Doctor of Chemistry. The Department conducts research in the following fields: In 2012 the joint Russian-French master's degree program in chemoinformatics