Angela Warnick Buchdahl
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Angela Warnick Buchdahl, born in Seoul, Korea, is the first Asian-American person to be ordained as a rabbi, and the first Asian-American person to be ordained as a hazzan
(also called a cantor), in all the world. She was ordained as a cantor in 1999 and ordained as a rabbi in 2001, with both ordinations done by HUC-JIR, an American seminary for Reform Judaism. As of 2011 she is the cantor of Central Synagogue, a large Reform congregation in Manhattan. She has served as faculty for the Wexner Heritage Foundation and for the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) Kallot programs, and on the board of the Jewish Multiracial Network.
Her father was an Ashkenazi Reform Jew and her mother was a Korean Buddhist.
Hazzan
A hazzan or chazzan is a Jewish cantor, a musician trained in the vocal arts who helps lead the congregation in songful prayer.There are many rules relating to how a cantor should lead services, but the idea of a cantor as a paid professional does not exist in classical rabbinic sources...
(also called a cantor), in all the world. She was ordained as a cantor in 1999 and ordained as a rabbi in 2001, with both ordinations done by HUC-JIR, an American seminary for Reform Judaism. As of 2011 she is the cantor of Central Synagogue, a large Reform congregation in Manhattan. She has served as faculty for the Wexner Heritage Foundation and for the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) Kallot programs, and on the board of the Jewish Multiracial Network.
Her father was an Ashkenazi Reform Jew and her mother was a Korean Buddhist.