Beyond bloody hatred
of past and present,
the joy of recognition
and the pain of neglect,
5753 will be most
remembered for the
rowing possibilities
for Arab-Israeli
understanding.

PHIL JACOBS

EDITOR

AND ARTHUR J. MAGIDA

SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

PEACE.

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PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat arranges his headdress during a meeting with reporters in
Alexandria, Egypt.

Or at least the strongest pos-
sibility of it since Israel's cre-
ation 45 years ago.
That's what the Jewish year of
5753 will be known for. Not for
the increasing fear that Jewish
"continuity" — the latest buzz-
word for Jewish survival — is on
the wane.
Not for infighting among
Lubavitch Chasidim that their
rebbe, Menachem Schneerson,
is, indeed, the Messiah.
Not for the collapse of a cul-
tural icon, Woody Allen, whose
shenanigans with the adopted
daughter of his girlfriend of 12
years, Mia Farrow, made one
wonder whether decades of hav-
ing some of New York's best psy-
chotherapists only proved that
Freud was full of bunk.
Not for the April opening of
the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington, a $169
million, 35,000-square-foot edi-
fice that should bring the most
scarlet of a blush to the face of
any half-intelligent Holocaust
denier.
But instead the signal event
for 5753 will be peace, the word

CE OF HOPE