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IV hat has 2000 to do
with 5760? Surely we
Jews have better things
to think about. Why,
all the most sensible Christians think
this will be a year like any other.
Only the kooks and the (actually
quite dangerous) Y2K alarmists take
2000 seriously.
What about 2000 could concern
us? I've compiled this list:
Suicidal murder sprees (including
Baruch Goldstein's); hate groups; the
culture of malevolent conspiracy;
UFOs and a cultic milieu thriving in
cyberspace; Y2K and our technologi-
cally empowered global tele-communi-
ty; the history of our immensely con-
sequential, initially Christian, technol-
ogy of time-keeping; the Pope's
Jubilee; the call for an international
debt amnesty; the rapture; Zionism of

evangelical and fundamentalist sup-
porters for Israel; new apocalyptic
movements, including Aum Shin
Rikyu, Falun Gong and a number of
Jewish and Islamic movements; and
this being unquestionably the most
philo-Judaic moment in the history of
Christianity.
So ler me propose, on the eve of the
Yaini777 Noraim [Ten Days of Awe], of
5760, a millennial meditation: Jews as
the oldest practitioners of civil society on
the globe. And let it be a five-season
meditation, lasting until millennium's
end and the dawning of the third
Christian and first global millennium
in history on Jan. 1, 2001.
Why is civil society a millennial
issue — or a particularly Jewish one?
For starters, linking civil society to all
items on my "laundry-list 2000" is
millennialism, a "future-myth" about
just society, and one to which Jews
have contributed the world's most
potent, most popular form.

