Heart of a Stranger, by Angela Buchdahl (2025)
Heart of a Stranger is a memoir of Rabbi Angela Buchdahl. She was born in Korea to a Korean Buddhist mother and an American Jewish father. When she was five-years-old, her family moved to a small town in Washington State, where she met her father's family and embraced Judaism. Although she her mother was not Jewish, she was raised in the Jewish religion. It wasn't until she was a teenager, that she learned that many because her mother was not Jewish, she would not be considered Jewish by all denominations. This book follows her path to become an ordained Reform rabbi to leading one of the largest Reform synagogues in the United States. At the end of each chapter, Rabbi Bachdahl provided a brief d'var Torah, a spiritual reflection on the preceding chapter.
The book is well written and explores her path to becoming the first Asian-American Rabbi.
Read: April 6, 2026
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