As the Jewish calendar marks Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl offers a message to us all about commemorating the New Year.

Angela Buchdahl is the senior rabbi of Central Synagogue and the author of the forthcoming memoir, Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging.

The gunman’s voice came on: taut and agitated, with a cadence that lurched from overwrought to coolly detached. He issued a ...

In her book Heart of a Stranger, Buchdahl tells the story of her life. She ends each chapter with a homily applying a sacred ...

“I have been a rabbi for 25 years, 20 of them at Central Synagogue, and I have never been so afraid to talk about Israel,” Rabbi Angela Buchdahl said in a Rosh Hashanah sermon.

The graphic on the back of the worship bulletin included three important words for this most holy time of year for our Jewish neighbors. Renew. Reflect. Return. These are significant postures during ...

( JTA) — In the two years since the attacks of Oct. 7, the Jewish discourse over the war in Gaza has been agonizing and ...

May is both Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Jewish American Heritage Month. Two entirely separate commemorations for two entirely separate communities, right?

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl is the first Asian-American to be ordained as a rabbi, and first woman to become both a rabbi and a cantor. She tells the Wall Street Journal's Veronica Dagher how she broke the ...

At Rosh Hashanah, we count the years since God created the world, this year being the year 5,786 (give or take a few billion years!). While this is a season of joy and community gathering, the New ...

Angela Warnick Buchdahl is an American rabbi. She was the first Asian-American to be ordained as a rabbi, and the first Asian-American to be ordained as a hazzan anywhere in the world.