Kay’s Book Club

The book for this session is Heart of a Stranger by Angela Buchdahl.

Part mem­oir, part ser­mon col­lec­tion, Heart of a Stranger tells the sto­ry of Rabbi/ Cantor Angela Buch­dahl. The daugh­ter of a Kore­an Bud­dhist moth­er and an Amer­i­can Jew­ish father, Buch­dahl traces the many twists and turns she took to find her way to becom­ing the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue, one of the most promi­nent and inno­v­a­tive Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties in the Unit­ed States.

Heart of a Stranger is a mov­ing por­tray­al of a sto­ried rab­binic jour­ney. The title is indeed apt. It speaks not only to how Buch­dahl car­ries her dual iden­ti­ties, mak­ing her more sen­si­tive to those who might feel like out­siders, but also to how the book lets us into her heart. Heart of a Stranger shows us the val­ues, strug­gles, yearn­ings, and Torah that guide one of Judaism’s most pow­er­ful teachers.

Rabbi Buchdahl discusses her bestselling memoir “Heart of A Stranger” and her journey to becoming the first woman to be the senior rabbi of Central Synagogue. With Abigail Pogrebin.  In the Spotlight: Angela Buchdahl

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