Prominent Members
Some prominent members of the Congregation have been:
- Mordecai Manuel Noah
- Benjamin Cardozo: Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- Emma Lazarus: Poet
- Edgar J. Nathan Manhattan Borough President and Judge of the New York Supreme Court
- Commodore Uriah P. Levy
- Isaac Pinto
- Arthur Tracy
- Judith Kaye: Chief Judge of New York 1993-2008
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