Person of the Year
- 2016 Jerome Charyn
- 2015 Dr. Ira Rothfeld
- 2014 Fyvush Finkel
- 2013 Miryom Kass
- 2012 Alan “Schlomo” Veingrad
- 2011 Rabbi Leonard Blank
- 2010 Sgt. Major Edwin M. Robbins (Ret WWII) National Commander Jewish War Veterans
- 2009 Robert Morgenthau
- 2008 Marjorie Magner
- 2007 Roslynn R. Mauskopf
- 2006 No Award
- 2005 Margaret Lambert
- 2004 Rabbi Tzvi Berkowitz
- 2003 Col. Jack Jacobs USA (Ret), Medal of Honor Recipient
- 2002 NO AWARD
- 2001 Benjamin A. Gilman
- 2000 Bruce Balter
- 1999 Rabbi Dr. Ronald B. Sobel
- 1998 Mitch Levey
- 1997 Bill Mazer
- 1996 Alan Hevesi
- 1995 Leslie Crocker-Snyder
- 1994 Mel Parness
- 1993 Jackie Mason
- 1992 Charles E. Schumer
- 1991 Eric Breindel
- 1990 Theobold D. Reich
- 1989 Robert M. Stutman
- 1988 Kenneth Gribetz
- 1987 R. Nathan Perlmutter
- 1986 Rabbi Dr. Alvin Kass
- 1986 Neil Sherrid (co-recipient w/Kass)
- 1985 Louis Rudin
- 1984 Edward I. Koch
- 1983 Menachem Begin
- 1982 NO AWARD
- 1981 Theodore Bikel
- 1980 Elie Wiesel
- 1979 Issac Bashevis Singer
- 1978 Felicia Shpritzer
- 1977 Harrison J. Golden
- 1976 David Frisher
- 1975 Robert C. Kohler
- 1974 Jules Sachson
- 1973 Rabbi Dr. Jack M. Sable
- 1972 Harold Melnick
- 1971 Louis Weiser
- 1970 Arthur Lipps
- 1969 Albert A. Seedman
- 1968 Aaron E. Kootz
- 1967 Louis L. Stutman
- 1966 Sanford D. Garelik
- 1965 Hyman Barshay
- 1964 Dore Schary
- 1963 Jacob K. Javits
- 1962 Edward S. Silver
- 1961 Rabbi Dr. Samuel Belkin
- 1960 Louis Lefkowitz
- 1959 Capt. Joshua Goldberg, USN
