At age 22, Cantor Ostfeld cracked through the stained glass ceiling to become the FIRST woman invested as a cantor in 3,000 years of Jewish history. Barbara was invested in 1975 by Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion.

Cantor Ostfeld explains how a family crisis exposed old and enduring wounds, but she began to rescue herself by diligently going to therapy–and embarked on an imperfect but perpetual metamorphosis, becoming the well-coiffed heroine of her own story. Cantor Ostfeld shows us that we are all brave pioneers—at becoming our true selves.

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