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Oswald Rufeisen, a Jew from Poland…
A Jew from Poland named Oswald Rufeisen converted to Christianity and became a Carmelite monk, taking the name Brother Daniel. Despite his conversion, he continued to identify as a Jew and in 1958 applied for citizenship in the State of Israel on the basis of his Jewish birth. One of Israel’s central doctrines is the Law of Return, guaranteeing the right of every Jew to immigrate to Israel and to become a citizen.
The Israeli Ministry of the Interior, uncertain how to proceed, referred the matter to the Israeli Supreme Court. The Court faced a profound dilemma. If it were to rule that Brother Daniel was no longer Jewish because he had abandoned Judaism, it would effectively declare that Jewish identity depends upon observance of Jewish law and belief. Yet most members of the Court—and a substantial portion of Israeli society—were secular and did not themselves observe Jewish law. On what grounds, then, could they deny Brother Daniel’s Jewishness?
On the other hand, Brother Daniel had fully embraced Christianity, adopted a new religious identity, and lived as a Carmelite monk. It was difficult to see how someone so thoroughly identified with another faith could still be regarded as a Jew in the civic sense.
Ultimately, the Court ruled that Brother Daniel could not be recognized as Jewish for the purposes of Israeli citizenship and the Law of Return. Crucially, the justices emphasized that they were not judging him according to Jewish law. Indeed, they explicitly acknowledged that according to Halakhah, Jewish law, Brother Daniel was entirely Jewish: born to a Jewish mother, he remained Jewish despite his apostasy. Their decision rested instead on secular Israeli law, under which the term “Jew” could not apply to someone who fully identified as a Christian.
This incident raises a fundamental and fascinating question: Are Jews a nation, a family, or a religious community?
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