Buchdahl’s deep spiritual faith and determination in ‘breaking a stained-glass ceiling’ of male rabbinic gatekeepers has made her one of the best-known and most admired rabbis in America.

How well do you know these pioneering Jewish women who broke down barriers in the seminary and in the pulpit?

Rabbi Buchdahl is being installed as the senior rabbi at the historic Central Synagogue in New York. We profiled the prominent rabbi and cantor in June 2013.