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Angela Warnick Buchdahl invested as first Asian-American cantor

May 16, 1999Growing up in Tacoma, Washington, Angela Warnick Buchdahl was both an outsider and an insider in the local Jewish community. Her paternal grandparents were founding members of the local...

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First female cantor leads Rosh Hashanah services

Betty Robbins was born in Greece, immigrated with her family, first to Poland and then to Australia, and ultimately made her home in the United States. In 1955, she was appointed the cantor of New...

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Julie Rosewald: America's first woman cantor

Julie Rosewald (1847-1906) was America's first woman cantor. Photo adapted from: A Hundred Years of Music in America: an Account of Musical Effort in America during the Past Century, William Smythe...

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Julie Rosewald becomes the first woman to lead services in an American synagogue

Julie Rosewald in unknown opera role, possiblyPrascovia in L’Étoile du Nord," given the bridal-looking veil. From: A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by...

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A Joyful Noise: Claiming the Songs of My Fathers

A Joyful NoiseAbout this bookby Deborah WeisgallPages: 262Format: PaperbackISBN: 080213730XPublisher: Grove PressDownload this guide: PDFA Joyful Noise: Claiming the Songs of My Father, by Deborah...

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More Than Just The Celebration of One Woman: Rabbi Cantor Angela Warnick...

Rabbi Cantor Angela Warnick Buchdahl at JWA's 2013 annual "Making Trouble / Making History" luncheon. Photo by Jordyn Rozensky.Usually, I’m a bit of a skeptic about the transformative power of women’s...

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All of the Above: Refusing to Choose

Promotional still of Basya Schechter and her nieces from the documentary All of the Above.There was a moment in my late twenties when I seriously considered rabbinical school. I was changing careers,...

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Betty Robbins

Betty Robbins spent her life breaking gender boundaries in the Jewish community even before she made history as the first woman cantor in 1955. Raised in Poland and inspired by cantorial recordings,...

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Angela Buchdahl named one of America’s 50 Most Influential Rabbis

Rabbi Angela W. Buchdahl. Courtesy of Central Synagogue.April 16, 2011“I just live my life as a Jew in the skin I am in. Once people enter my synagogue and hear me chant, the fact that I am Korean...

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Miriam Gideon

Miriam Gideon took inspiration for her compositions from great poetry and Jewish prayers, earning acclaim as the second woman inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in...

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Angela Buchdahl

Angela Buchdahl made history as the first Asian-American rabbi and cantor, but it has been her skill with congregants that has fueled her rise to senior rabbi at a prestigious Manhattan synagogue. The...

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Rabbi Cantor Angela Warnick Buchdahl

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Basya Schechter with her Nieces

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Betty Robbins

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Angela Buchdahl

Rabbi Cantor Angela Warnick Buchdahl at JWA's 2013 annual "Making Trouble / Making History" luncheon. Photo by Jordyn RozenskyAs the first Asian-American rabbi and cantor, Angela Buchdahl has shifted...

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Rabbi Cantor Angela Warnick Buchdahl

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More Than Just The Celebration of One Woman: Rabbi Cantor Angela Warnick...

Rabbi Cantor Angela Warnick Buchdahl at JWA's 2013 annual "Making Trouble / Making History" luncheon. Photo by Jordyn RozenskyUsually, I’m a bit of a skeptic about the transformative power of women’s...

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Basya Schechter with her Nieces

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All of the Above: Refusing to Choose

Promotional still of Basya Schechter and her nieces from the documentary All of the Above.There was a moment in my late twenties when I seriously considered rabbinical school. I was changing careers,...

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Betty Robbins

Betty Robbins spent her life breaking gender boundaries in the Jewish community even before she made history as the first woman cantor in 1955. Raised in Poland and inspired by cantorial recordings,...

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