Angela Buchdahl
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. Rabbi Buchdahl first joined Central Synagogue as senior cantor in 2006. In 2014, she was chosen by the congregation to be senior rabbi. Rabbi Buchdahl was invested as a cantor in 1999 and also ordained as a rabbi in 2001 by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, senior rabbi at Central Synagogue in New York City and a fellow in Hartman’s Rabbinic Leadership Initiative, delivered a powerful sermon after fielding two cellphone calls from the gunman at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, TX.
Read her op-ed in The Forward adapted from her sermon.
