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Barbara Ostfeld became obsessed by singing at two, but didn’t learn to ride a bike until twelve. At age twenty-two she cracked through a stained glass ceiling to become the first woman ordained as a cantor in 3,000 years of Jewish history, but later foolishly declined an invitation to appear on What’s My Line?