Tag: KoreAm

  • Homeland Tour for Biracial Adoptees KoreAm 2015-03-09 Katherine Kim Dawn Tomlinson photographs by Denis Jeong International adoption began in South Korea in 1953, as thousands of Korean children were left parentless and/or homeless by the Korean War, while many others were born to Korean women and fathered by American GIs or soldiers from one of…

  • Nation’s First Asian American Rabbi Inspires Social Change KoreAm: The Korean American Experience 2011-12-06 Rebecca U. Cho Unorthodox Rabbi As a child, Angela Buchdahl stood out as the lone Asian face in the synagogue and at Jewish camps. Today, she holds the distinction of being the nation’s first Asian American rabbi and is helping to…