page_title: Congregation Emanu-El of New York
section_title: Notable members and funerals
hierarchical_section_title: Congregation Emanu-El of New York / Notable members and funerals
caption_attribution_description: English: Temple Emanu-El, 1 East 65th Street, New York City
context_page_description: Temple Emanu-El of New York is the first Reform Jewish congregation in New York City and, because of its size and prominence, has served as a flagship congregation in the Reform branch of Judaism since its founding in 1845. Its landmark Romanesque Revival building on Fifth Avenue is one of the largest synagogues in the world. In size, it rivals many of the largest European synagogues such as Grand Choral Synagogue of St. Petersburg, Moscow Choral Synagogue, and the Budapest Great Synagogue. Emanu-El means "God is with us" in Hebrew.
  The congregation currently comprises approximately 2,000 families and has been led by Senior Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson since July 2013. The congregation is located at 1 East 65th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The Temple houses the Bernard Museum of Judaica, the congregation's Judaica collection of over 1,000 objects.
context_section_description: Charles Benenson
  Robert A. Bernhard
  Dorothy Lehman Bernhard
  Milton H. Biow
  Leon Black
  Harvey R. Blau
  Paul Block
  Michael Bloomberg
  Lyman Bloomingdale
  Benjamin Buttenwieser
  Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
  Charles Frohman
  Bernard Gimbel
  Alan "Ace" Greenberg
  David M. Heyman
  Martin Kimmel
  Alfred J. Koeppel
  Andrew Lack
  Abraham E. Lefcourt
  Adele Lewisohn Lehman
  Herbert H. Lehman
  Irving Lehman
  Solomon Loeb
  Louis Marshall
  Bernard H. Mendik
  William A. Moses
  Adolph Ochs
  Milton Petrie
  Victor Potamkin
  Joan Rivers
  Chester H. Roth
  Simon F. Rothschild
  Frank Russek
  Mel Sachs
  David Sarnoff
  Jacob Schiff
  M. Lincoln Schuster
  Sime Silverman
  Carl Spielvogel
  Eliot Spitzer
  Oscar S. Straus
  Lewis L. Strauss
  Sarah Lavanburg Straus
  Harold Uris
  Felix M. Warburg
  Jeff Zucker
caption: Detail of the rose window
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