Faith & Reflection: Voices from the Black Church and Beyond
- Broke barriers as the first East-Asian cantor (1999) and first East-Asian American rabbi ordained in North America (2001).
- Led Central Synagogue in New York, serving as senior cantor (2006) and appointed senior rabbi in 2014, guiding a major congregation.
- Earned national recognition from Newsweek and The Daily Beast, listed among America’s most influential rabbis.
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What does it mean to be a stranger? Rabbi Angela Buchdahl’s journey of faith, identity, and belonging teaches us the value of embracing the strangers among us—and our inner strangers, as well. In our increasingly divided world, the struggle to find belonging often leads us to question our identities. A cantor as well as a rabbi, she brings the experience of coming to a strange land, and the joy of leading Central Synagogue in New York City, one of the largest Jewish congregations in North America, to the conversation—as well as to her memoir Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging.
Rabbi Angela has been a trailblazer in the Jewish community since 1999, when she became the first East-Asian person to be invested as a cantor anywhere in the world. In 2001, she became the first East-Asian American to be ordained a rabbi in North America. She came to Central Synagogue in New York as senior cantor in 2006 and was appointed senior rabbi in 2014.
Newsweek and The Daily Beast have included Rabbi Angela Buchdahl in their lists of America’s “Most Influential Rabbis.”
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