{"id":180817,"date":"2026-03-31T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180817\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:45:08","slug":"jewish-lawyers-guild-bids-mazel-tov-new-yorks-top-matrimonal-judge-high-ranking-jurist-for-the-bronx-at-annual-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180817\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Lawyers Guild bids \u2018mazel tov!\u2019 New York\u2019s top matrimonal judge, high-ranking jurist for the Bronx at annual gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AAA-MY8A4092-1.jpeg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"JEWISH LAWYERS GUILD 47TH ANNUAL GALA\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Jewish Lawyers Guild bids 'mazel tov!' New York's top matrimonal judge, high-ranking jurist for the Bronx at annual gala 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Justice Joseph Capella, administrative judge for civil matters in Bronx Supreme Court (left), receives the Golda Meir Memorial Award from the Adam Silvera at the Jewish Lawyers Guild 47th Annual Gala at the Metropolitan Pavilion on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Photos by Jefferson Siegel for the Office of Court Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Photos by Jefferson Siegel for the Office of Court Administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137840737\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AAA-MY8A4041-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"860\" title=\"Jewish Lawyers Guild bids 'mazel tov!' New York's top matrimonal judge, high-ranking jurist for the Bronx at annual gala 2\"  \/>The parents of Edan Alexander, a freed IDF October 7th hostage, are honored for their advocacy on behalf of all the hostages, at the Jewish Lawyers Guild 47th Annual Gala at the Metropolitan Pavilion on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Photo by Jefferson Siegel for the Office of Court Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Last week at the Jewish Lawyers Guild\u2019s 47th annual gala, the organization feted two of New York\u2019s highest ranking judges with awards named for icons within the Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>At the March 24 gala, held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, the guild presented the Benjamin N. Cardozo Award \u2014 named for the famed United States Supreme Court justice from New York who served on the high court from 1914 to 1932 \u2014 to Jeffrey Sunshine, the longtime Brooklyn Supreme Court justice who now serves as the statewide coordinating judge for matrimonial manners.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137840738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AAA-MY8A3967-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"621\" title=\"Jewish Lawyers Guild bids 'mazel tov!' New York's top matrimonal judge, high-ranking jurist for the Bronx at annual gala 3\"  \/>Appellate Division, First Department Justice Shlomo Hagler; Joseph A. Zayas, New York\u2019s chief administrative judge; and Norman St. George, first deputy chief administrative judge of the New York court system, at the Jewish Lawyers Guild 47th Annual Gala at the Metropolitan Pavilion on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Photos by Jefferson Siegel for the Office of Court Administration. Photo by Jefferson Siegel for the Office of Court Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The organization also presented the Golda Meir Memorial Award, which takes its namesake from the prime minister for Israel from 1969 to 1974, to Bronx Supreme Court Justice Capella, who serves as the administrative judge for civil matters in the Bronx.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The guest list for the guild\u2019s event included a number of New York\u2019s highest ranking judges, including Chief Administrative Judge Joseph Zayas and Adam Silvera, the deputy chief administrative judge for New York City courts. Guests also heard an address from the parents of an Israeli Defense Force soldier who was captured during the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks and later freed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137840741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AAA-MY8A3907.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"Jewish Lawyers Guild bids 'mazel tov!' New York's top matrimonal judge, high-ranking jurist for the Bronx at annual gala 4\"  \/>Judges Suzanne Adams (left) and Adam Silvera at the Jewish Lawyers Guild 47th Annual Gala at the Metropolitan Pavilion on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Photo by Jefferson Siegel for the Office of Court Administration.Photo by Jefferson Siegel for the Office of Court Administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justice Joseph Capella, administrative judge for civil matters in Bronx Supreme Court (left), receives the Golda Meir Memorial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-180817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}