Barbara Ostfeld

Barbara Ostfeld-Horowitz
Religion Jewish
School Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Sect Reform
Personal
Nationality American
Born Barbara Ostfeld
1952 (age 6364)
St. Louis, Missouri[1]
Religious career
Ordination 1975
Profession Cantor

Barbara Jean Ostfeld (born 1952)[1] is the first woman to be ordained as a cantor in Reform Judaism.[2] She was ordained in 1975 by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.[3] That school later established the Temple Beth-El of Great Neck, New York Prize in her honor.[4] From 1976 through 1988, she served Temple Beth-El of Great Neck as cantor.[3] From 1990 through 2002 she was a cantor at Temple Beth Am of Buffalo, NY.[3]

From 1996 to 1998, she chaired the Joint Cantorial Placement Commission of the American Conference of Cantors; she has also served it as a Secretary, Vice President, Northeast Regional Representative, and member of its Board of Directors.[3] In September 2002, she was appointed its Placement Director.[3]

In March 2000, as she marked 25 years of congregational service, she received an honorary doctorate in Sacred Music from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.[3] She retired from her position with the American Conference of Cantors in 2012.[5][6]

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