Angela Warnick Buchdahl (born Angela Lee Warnick on 8 July 1972) is an American rabbi. She is the first Asian-American to be ordained as a rabbi, and the first Asian-American to be ordained as a hazzan (cantor) anywhere in the world. She is also the first woman to become both a rabbi and a cantor; others had become one or the other, but not both. In 2012 she was named by Newsweek as one of "America's 50 Most Influential Rabbis", and was recognized as one of the top five in The Forwards 2014 "Forward Fifty", a list of American Jews who have had the most impact on the national scene in the previous year.
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8 July 1972 (age 52) Seoul, Korea
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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