Should synagogues remove the Israeli flag from bimahs now? How a New York shul made the decision
Central Synagogue had displayed an Israeli flag since Oct. 7 in honor of the hostages
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Books How an ‘unlikely rabbi’ went from Korea to Colbert
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl's memoir 'Heart of a Stranger' charts her journey as the first Asian American rabbi and cantor
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Opinion ‘The awe of interconnectedness:’ Rabbi Angela Buchdahl on the worst day of her life, and the redemptive power of wonder
As the first rabbi to speak at Stanford's Baccalaureate in 20 years, Buchdahl recalled the terror of the Colleyville hostage crisis — and how awe helped her survive that day
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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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Opinion Tale of Two Sermons on Israel
After a brutal, confusing summer of fighting between Israel and Hamas, many American rabbis were supposedly skittish about talking about Israel from the pulpit. Why, even The New York Times reported on this rabbinic reluctance: “Debate among Jews about Israel is nothing new, but some say the friction is now fire,” Laurie Goodstein wrote on…
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News What’s Unnerving About Angela Buchdahl? She Talks About God
(Haaretz) — What has made some people nervous about Angela Buchdahl becoming the senior rabbi at Central Synagogue – one of the two largest Reform synagogues in New York and one of the biggest in the United States – is not that she’s the first Asian-American rabbi. It’s not that she’s a woman or, at…
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Fast Forward Central Synagogue Names First Asian-American Head Rabbi
Angela Warnick Buchdahl was named Senior Rabbi of Manhattan’s Central Synagogue last night in a unanimous vote by the synagogue’s Board of Trustees, making her the first Asian-American leader of one of the nation’s largest Reform synagogues. Buchdahl currently serves as the synagogue’s Senior Cantor and will succeed Senior Rabbi Peter Rubinstein, who announced his…
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News Angela Buchdahl, First Asian-American Rabbi, Vies for Role at Central Synagogue
When Cantor Angela Buchdahl walks among the pews, greeting congregants before Friday night services at Manhattan’s venerable Central Synagogue, she encounters a mélange of Jewish faces, including blacks, Asians and Hispanics. It’s a diversity that reflects the emergence of an American Jewry of unprecedented ethnic breadth, and a diversity that Buchdahl — born to an…
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