In the public discourse and research literature, signifier “religious-Zionism” is usually viewed as denoting a specific group located midway between secular ultra-Orthodox Jews. This location does not turn religious-Zionism into residual category including whoever part of two others. Quite contrary. Religious-Zionism used to be with unique characteristics, values normative fullness its own. I a...

This article examines the career of pioneer British psychoanalyst David Eder (1865-1936). Credited by Freud as the first practising psychoanalyst in England, active in early British socialism and then a significant figure in Zionism in post-war Palestine, and in between an adventurer in South America, a pioneer in the field of school medicine, and a writer on shell-shock, Eder is a strangely ne...

The status of Jewish identity in cases conversion to another religion is a contentious issue and was brought the forefront public attention with 1962 court case Oswald Rufeisen, convert Christianity known as Br. Daniel, which led shift way that state Israel defines for purposes citizenship. At same time, however, test conflicting interpretations after playing out Rufeisen’s own monastery, hidde...