Rabbi Angela Buchdahl reflects on growing up Korean American, biracial, mixed-faith, and repeatedly questioned as a Jew—and on Jewish practices that can turn strangeness toward a more generous belonging.
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Your identity crosses inherited categories, you have been made to feel insufficiently authentic, or you want a faith-rooted account of belonging without sameness.
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A distinctly Jewish and autobiographical conversation. It discusses racism, sexism, conversion, antisemitism, political division, October 7 and Israel, fear, and threats.
