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Articles
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Crystal Clear
Resolving the complex spatial nature of crystals
By David E. Kaplan
It took two Israeli professors, one a former South African from Belville near Cape Town to solve a riddle left unanswered by Louis Pasteur nearly a century-and-a-half earlier. What began by noting “the patterns while observing my mother as a dressmaker,” led to Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz receiving the 2021 Wolf Prize for Chemistry.
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Punching Above Our Weight
Israel on the frontline of support and rescue in a time of disaster
By Rolene Marks
Israel values human life and helps those in need – regardless of their location. From natural disasters like earthquakes and mudslides to disease and famine, time and again the Jewish state sends humanitarian aid missions to help save lives. The devastating collapse of a residential complex in Miami, Florida is the latest to see our “Blue and White” heroes providing such aid and support.
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A Call to Stop Hate Fell on Deaf Ears
The South African Muslim Judicial Council and South African Jewry
By Adv. Craig Snoyman
“Calls not to serve Jews”!!!! To cool religious tensions in South Africa arising from the conflict in the Middle East, the country’s Chief Rabbi extended an olive branch to the nation’s Muslim leadership, which not only it scornfully rejected but sought support from Christian leadership further inflaming antipathy towards the country’s Jews.
A Call to Stop Hate Fell on Deaf Ears
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