Barbara Jean Ostfeld (born 1952) is the first woman to be ordained as a cantor in Reform Judaism. She was ordained in 1975 by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. That school later established the Temple Beth-El of Great Neck, New York Prize in her honor. From 1976 through 1988, she served Temple Beth-El of Great Neck as cantor. From 1990 through 2002 she was a cantor at Temple Beth Am of Buffalo, NY.
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