ISRAEL
Times of Israel
January 2, 2018
In her first public comments, daughter of Shlomo Carlebach pens a frank, emotional Times of Israel blog post entitled ‘My sisters, I hear you’
Neshama Carlebach has made her first public statements about the alleged sexual misbehavior of her late father, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, describing the reckoning as “the most painful” challenge she has had to face.
In a frank and emotional Times of Israel blog post entitled “My sisters, I hear you,” Ms. 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 9 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.
The blog post came in the wake of allegations of sexual impropriety — some previously known and some made in recent weeks — brought to the fore by a wide scale reckoning with sexual attacks on women that began with reports of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation and signified with the #MeToo Twitter hashtag.
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