Angela Buchdahl

Rabbi

Angela Warnick Buchdahl
Rabbi; Angela Warnick Buchdahl
	Buchdahl sings and plays guitar at the Jewish Women's Archive in 2013
Born	Angela Lee Warnick; July 8, 1972; Seoul, South Korea
Education	Yale University (BA in Religious Studies, 1994); Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York (ordained cantor 1999, ordained rabbi 2001);
Alma mater	Yale University
Known for	Rabbi, cantor
Spouse	Jacob Buchdahl
Children	3

Angela Buchdahl (née Warnick; Korean: 앤절라 워닉 북달; born July 8, 1972) is an American rabbi. She was the first East Asian-American to be ordained as a rabbi, and the first East Asian-American to be ordained as a hazzan (cantor). In 2011 she was named by Newsweek and The Daily Beast as one of America's "Most Influential Rabbis", and in 2012 by The Daily Beast as one of America's "Top 50 Rabbis". Buchdahl was recognized as one of the top five in The Forward's 2014 "Forward Fifty", a list of American Jews who had the most impact on the national scene in the previous year.

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