A ‘painful’ challenge: The Singing Rabbi’s daughter on her father’s sexual misdeeds

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Published: 4 January 2018

Last updated: 4 March 2024

IN A FRANK and emotional Times of Israel blog post entitled “My sisters, I hear you,” Carlebach expressed solidarity with victims of sexual assault, pledging to “walk through this narrow-bridge world” with them and disclosing that she was sexually assaulted at age nine by one of her father’s associates, whom she described as a trusted friend and a rabbi.

The singer, who incorporates her father’s music and ideas in her own performances, maintained there is far more to Shlomo Carlebach than his alleged misdeeds. “I accept the fullness of who my father was, flaws and all. I am angry with him. And I refuse to see his faults as the totality of who he was,” wrote Carlebach.

FULL STORY Neshama Carlebach writes about her father, victims and being molested as a child (Times of Israel)

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Photo: Neshama Carlebach with her father Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach (supplied)