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Zionists believe that continued renewal of the Jewish
people necessitates a National Home in its historic
homeland. Cultural Zionism was/is concerned with the
cultural quality of the physical (political) framework.
It sought TO SAVE and REVITALIZE JUDAISM in the
post-traditional world.
Cultural Zionism is concerned with all aspects of non-
material culture – beliefs, values, norms of behavior, social
and political organization, relation to sacred and profane in
time. "Religious Zionism" is a
particular kind of Cultural
Zionism.
“If, as we hope, there is
to be a third (Jewish
State) its fundamental
principle on the
national as well as the
individual plane will be
neither the ascendancy
of body over spirit nor
the suppression of the Achad Ha’Am 1856-1927)
body for the spirit’s
sake but the uplifting of
the body by the spirit.”
Achad Ha’am, “Flesh and Spirit”,(1904)
As the National Home of ALL the Jewish people,
the rights of all current expressions of Judaism
remain a legitimate concern of all Jews who identify
with cultural Zionism's aim of ensuring the creative
continuity of "Jewish Civilization" (Mordecai Kaplan).