Why I Am Making 'Aliyah' to Reform Jewry – Forward.com
While I do not get into the more-Jew-than-you game with the various streams of Judaism, I really liked this piece as I sense a profound joy in the spaces between the letters. Am I projecting? Perhaps. All the same it sounds like her Aliyah is sincere.
Neshama Carlebach is one of my favorite performers. Her voice lifts me from wherever I am at to a better place and her songs - even the stray niggun - leaves me somehow more in touch with my own Judaism than before I heard them.
