Is the future of Judaism in America promising or is there reason for great pessimism? Dozens of scholars participated in an Ethics and Public Policy Center conference on September 6, 1997 to explore this question and we have distilled this fascinating discussion. Essays by Charles S. Liebman, Jonathan Woocher, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Clifford Librach, Dennis Prager, Robert M. Seltzer, David Singer, Neil Gillman, Jack Wertheimer, Barry Shrage, Adam Mintz, and Peter S. Knobel.