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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).
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