Angela Buchdahl (née Warnick; Korean: 앤절라 워닉 북달;[2] born July 8, 1972) is an American reform rabbi.

She was raised Jewish, attending Temple Beth El in Tacoma, Washington, which her great-grandparents had assisted in founding a century before.

[7] Buchdahl attended Yale University, where she was one of the first female members of Skull and Bones, a secret student society.

[5][9] In 1999, Buchdahl was invested as a cantor, and in 2001, she was ordained as a rabbi[10] by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, a seminary for Reform Judaism.

[11][10][17] During her tenure as of 2012, Friday night attendance at the synagogue had doubled, post-bar mitzvah retention had tripled, and the waiting list for membership had risen to over 300.

[23] On March 22, 2019, Buchdahl opened the doors of Central Synagogue to hundreds of worshipers from a nearby mosque ravaged by fire.

[24][25] In December 2019, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency named her among the Jews who defined the 2010s, and stated, "The choice of Buchdahl to replace the retiring Rabbi Peter Rubinstein elevated a woman and a Jew of color to a position of virtually unprecedented prominence in the Jewish world and made Buchdahl a potent symbol of the changing face of American Judaism.

The hostage taker said that he had a bomb, and asked Buchdahl to use her position of influence to secure Aafia Siddiqui's release from prison.