Within a few decades, the majority of Jews in the world will be living in Israel. This is the consummation of the Zionist ideal and with the return of our people to its historic homeland, it is in Israel that the future of the Jewish people will largely be determined. However, a considerable part of the Jewish people will continue to live in the countries of the Diaspora, subject to a growing danger of assimilation. In some countries, this process is accelerated by economic and social crises.

There are those in world Jewry who belong to Jewish frameworks but are not necessarily involved in Zionist activity. Ours is a twofold goal: to encourage all types of Jewish culture in the Jewish communities while simultaneously deepening the commitment to Zionism and to Israel. In the twenty-first century, the greatest dangers facing Jewish culture are liable on the one to be ignorance and the lure of cultural globalization and on one hand, the ultra-orthodox tendency in Judaism.

A liberal and secular Jewish culture, drawing on classical Jewish sources for its content and values, nowadays constitutes a legitimate and equal stream within Judaism. Our critical and pluralistic attitude to the Jewish cultural heritage is founded on the concept that 'nothing Jewish is alien to me'. While all Jewish culture will suffer from any weakening of the links between the Diaspora and Israel, which is the center of the Jewish people, we conceive our Jewish heritage as historical and national, and not only religious.