But as senior rabbi, he found it difficult to be himself.
He would serve as senior rabbi for 25 years, retiring in 1993.
Before becoming senior rabbi he had previously been an educator there from 1993 to 1998.
Weider retired as senior rabbi in 2006, after 28 years of service.
With Feldman's retirement in 1991, his son became the senior rabbi of the synagogue.
Frederick C. Schwartz served as senior rabbi from 1974 to 1997.
On Danziger's retirement in 2000, he became senior rabbi.
His successor, Samuel Koch, was senior rabbi from 1906 to 1942.
He described a recent conversation with a senior Israeli rabbi about the bloody events in Lebanon.
He died in 1968, and is the congregation's only deceased senior rabbi not buried in its cemetery.