Rabbi Angela Buchdahl is a woman of many ‘firsts.’ She is the first woman to lead the Central Synagogue in New York City as Senior Rabbi in its 180 year history. She is also the first Asian-American woman to be ordained as a Rabbi. Her work has involved combining Judaism and other cultures and her essay ‘Kimchee on the Seder plate’ describes her Korean mother substituting kimchee for the biting taste of horseradish, emblematic of the ‘mixed multitude’ that is the Jewish people.