{"id":14790,"date":"2026-05-31T03:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/lessons-in-empathy-from-an-unlikely-rabbi-angela-buchdahl\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T03:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:06:20","slug":"lessons-in-empathy-from-an-unlikely-rabbi-angela-buchdahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/lessons-in-empathy-from-an-unlikely-rabbi-angela-buchdahl\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons in Empathy From an Unlikely Rabbi: Angela Buchdahl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"everlit-audio-embed\"><\/div>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block;width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.image-caption {<br \/>\n    display: none;<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>.pod-stream-buttons {<br \/>\ndisplay: flex;<br \/>\njustify-content: center;<br \/>\nmargin-bottom: 1.5rem;<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>.post-thumbnail  {<br \/>\ndisplay: none;<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>.stream-button {<br \/>\nflex: 1 1;<br \/>\nmargin-right: 0.5rem;<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>.stream-button:last-child {<br \/>\nmargin-right: 0;<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>.stream-button a {<br \/>\ndisplay: flex;<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>.stream-button object, .stream-button img {<br \/>\nwidth: 100%;<br \/>\nheight: 100%;<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>.wp-remixd-voice-wrapper {<br \/>\n    display: none !important;<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be a stranger? Rabbi <strong>Angela Buchdahl&#8217;s<\/strong> journey of faith, identity, and belonging teaches us the value of embracing the strangers among us&#8212;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&#8212;as well as to her memoir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/-\/en\/Heart-Stranger-Unlikely-Identity-Belonging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike&#173;ly Rab&#173;bi&#8217;s Sto&#173;ry of Faith, Iden&#173;ti&#173;ty, and Belonging<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><em>Newsweek<\/em> and <em>The Daily Beast<\/em> have included Rabbi Angela Buchdahl in their lists of America&#8217;s &#8220;Most Influential Rabbis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2026\/05\/30\/lessons-from-an-unlikely-rabbi-angela-buchdahl\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff .image-caption { display: none; } .pod-stream-buttons { display: flex; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; } .post-thumbnail { display: none; } .stream-button { flex: 1 1; margin-right: 0.5rem; } .stream-button:last-child { margin-right: 0; } .stream-button a { display: flex; } .stream-button object, .stream-button img { width: 100%; height: 100%; } .wp-remixd-voice-wrapper { display: none !important; } [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}