Coming out from under her father’s shadow, Neshama Carlebach shines in new album

by kevin | Mar 12, 2019

STAMFORD, Connecticut — Neshama Carlebach sits in her car in a deli parking lot, listening to her new song “Believe.” She beams when the words, “I close my eyes so I can see all that can be / We will rise, I do believe,” pipe through the speaker — but not for the...

Neshama Carlebach is figuring out how ‘to both love and not love’ her father

by kevin | Mar 12, 2019

NEW YORK — Neshama Carlebach says she is figuring out how “to both love and not love” her father. Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, a spiritual leader and musician whose soulful melodies penetrated the hearts of people across the religious spectrum, is the man who made her into...

Neshama Carlebach speaks about her famed father’s legacy of sexual abuse

by kevin | Mar 12, 2019

Neshama Carlebach said that as she got ready to deliver her June 12 talk at Congregation Emanu-El, her first impulse was to scream and run out of the room. It was the sixth time this year the 43-year-old musician was addressing such an audience, all of them since she...

Times of Israel: My Sisters, I Hear You

by Neshama Carlebach | Jan 5, 2018

Originally published by TimesOfIsrael.com I. Hineni My friends, I humbly come before you. I am grateful to have this privilege to share what I hope will be a contribution to the conversation we are now engaged in in this moment of transformation. I acknowledge that...

Neshama Carlebach Speaks Out About Her Father Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

by Neshama Carlebach | Jan 4, 2018

Neshama Carlebach, is a musical powerhouse, who is sharing her memories of her father, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, as she tells the tale of pain, legacy, and transcendence to “return to where you are born and born again.”For those who don’t know who Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach...

Neshama Carlebach to wed activist rabbi Menachem Creditor

by Neshama Carlebach | Nov 30, 2017

(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Rabbi Menachem Creditor met Neshama Carlebach 10 years ago when the popular Jewish singer headlined a concert at Creditor’s shul, Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, California. They struck up a friendship,...