[9] Over the years, Shaare Zedek has been home to some of the country's great rabbis including Philip R. Alstat, Israel Goldfarb, and Isaac Kurtzlow along with such esteemed cantors as David Roitman, Frank Birnbaum and Martin Kozlowsky.

Although Shaare Zedek was the last Conservative synagogue in the area to allow fully egalitarian worship, women now participate in every aspect of the service and the congregation was recently served by a female rabbi.

While preserving the traditional liturgy quite closely and committing to a fairly strict observance of Jewish law, the community is generally politically and socially progressive.

[10] In July 2017 the appeals of the West Nineties Neighborhood Coalition to the NYCLPC and Community Board 7 and city officials were dismissed, and a State Supreme Court judge approved the synagogue's petition to sell the building to the developer, leaving the preservation effort out of options.

In July 2023 the apartments were sold to Landsea for $24.5 million;[13][14] and the following month it was announced that the yeshiva Hadar Institute will move into the complex as a tenant of the congregation.