The American Jewish condition after 350 years.

EDITOR'S NOTE: 2004 commemorates the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the first Jews to North America (23 Portuguese Jews from Recife, Brazil, escaping the Inquisition and docking in Peter Styvesant's New Amsterdam in 1654), we at MIDSTREAM celebrate this signal event in this issue with articles on American Jewish life, its problems, and achivement. Most fittingly, we begin with a memorable speech by Professor Henry Feingold on the American Jewish condition today. It was the Keynote Address delivered on June 10, 2002 at the Fifth Biennial Scholars Conference on American Jewish