What do you do when you feel like an outsider? We spoke to Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, who turned her experience of being a cultural and religious outsider into a source of strength. Raised in a biracial, mixed-faith Korean American family, her identity was both welcomed and questioned in Korean and Jewish communities. She would later go on to become one of the most prominent and influential public rabbis in the United States, the first female East Asian senior rabbi at New York’s Central Synagogue, and the writer of the bestselling memoir Heart of a Stranger.
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