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Emily Korzenik, 96, Dies; Rabbi Took a Bar Mitzvah to Poland

Part of the first generation of women ordained in America, she presided over the first bar mitzvah in Krakow, still scarred by the Holocaust, in decades. It did not go smoothly.

© Thomas McDonald for The New York Times

Rabbi Emily Faust Korzenik in Stamford, Conn., in 2003. For 25 years she presided over the Fellowship for Jewish Learning, a congregation there.
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