NEW YORK – In 1994, when Neshama Carlebach, then a teenager, joined her father, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach on stage they broke the taboo of kol isha, the Orthodox prohibition of women singing before men.

Yaacov Weintraub was a teenager in the 1980s when he met Shlomo Carlebach at a weekend retreat. Like many others, Weintraub was drawn to the singing, guitar-playing rabbi who called himself just ...

Neshama Carlebach knows what its like to take heroes off their pedestals. “I know now the value of pain and being able to look inside,” she said. “What began as the greatest moment of loss in my life, ...