{"id":35662,"date":"2014-01-28T18:44:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T18:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35662"},"modified":"2014-01-28T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T18:45:19","slug":"new-rabbi-at-manhattans-central-synagogue-a-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35662","title":{"rendered":"New Rabbi at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue ‘a Pioneer’"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Rabbi at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue ‘a Pioneer’<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal<\/a>
\n2014-01-17<\/p>\n

Sophia Hollander<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl Is Daughter of a Korean Buddhist Immigrant and an American Jew<\/em><\/p>\n

Growing up as the daughter of a Korean Buddhist<\/a> immigrant and an American Jew in Tacoma, Wash.<\/a>, Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl<\/a> said some family members always wondered: Could she ever be fully accepted as a Jew?<\/p>\n

Any lingering doubts were eliminated last week when the congregation of Midtown’s historic Central Synagogue<\/a> voted her to succeed Rabbi Peter Rubinstein<\/a>, 71, when he retires later this year. Her appointment will take effect July 1.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Buchdahl, who is 41, will become one of only a few women\u2014and likely the only Asian-American\u2014leading a major U.S. synagogue. Central Synagogue boasts 100 full-time employees and an endowment that exceeds $30 million.<\/p>\n

“She really is a pioneer,” said Rabbi B. Elka Abrahamson<\/a>, president of the Wexner Foundation<\/a>, which develops Jewish leaders in North America and Israel. “She represents a new generation of women.” According to the Central Conference of American Rabbis<\/a>, the largest rabbinical organization in North America, about 30% of Reform-movement<\/a> rabbis are women.<\/p>\n

Her appointment comes at a critical moment for American Judaism. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that the number of U.S. adults identifying as Jewish has dropped by half since the late 1950s. Fewer than a third of Jewish adults said they belonged to a synagogue, temple or other congregation…<\/p>\n

…In addition to her unusual cultural heritage, Rabbi Buchdahl has been quick to blur other lines. According to the Central Conference of American Rabbis, she is one of only about a dozen people in the U.S. and Canada ordained as both a rabbi<\/a> and a cantor<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Rabbi at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue ‘a Pioneer’ The Wall Street Journal 2014-01-17 Sophia Hollander Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl Is Daughter of a Korean Buddhist Immigrant and an American Jew Growing up as the daughter of a Korean Buddhist immigrant and an American Jew in Tacoma, Wash., Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl said some family members […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,3601,8,820,20,25],"tags":[11061,13330,13331,16858,2711,596,5102,9705],"class_list":["post-35662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","category-women","tag-angela-buchdahl","tag-angela-w-buchdahl","tag-angela-warnick-buchdahl","tag-central-synagogue","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-the-wall-street-journal","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}