Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl serves as the senior rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City, the first woman to lead the large Reform congregation in its 175-year history.
Angela Warnick Buchdahl
By Angela Warnick Buchdahl
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Opinion ‘You’re running out of time’: Rabbi details calls with Texas terrorist
This essay is adapted from the sermon that Rabbi Angela Buchdahl delivered Friday night at Central Synagogue in Manhattan. Buchdahl, Central’s senior rabbi, fielded two cellphone calls last Saturday from Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, where a British gunman had taken a rabbi and three congregants hostage. The gunman, Malik Faisal Akram, asked the…
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Life ‘We Jews are not a race’: A rabbi of color speaks personally on Yom Kippur
This essay is adapted from the sermon Rabbi Angela Buchdahl delivered to Manhattan’s Central Synagogue, where she has been senior rabbi since 2013. Buchdahl was the first Asian-American to be ordained as a rabbi and, before that, the first to ordained as a cantor. You can watch the sermon on video here. Are you Jewish?…
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