Just read Asher Lovy’s review of The Darkest Light. The phrase that stood out to me in judgment of Carlebach: “indifference to women’s bodily autonomy.” (Context was his “flippant dismissal” of his own daughter’s report of assault at the hands of his friend.) Is our indifference to his indifference acceptable? Tenable? Yes I am uplifted by his music, but in singing his niggunim to welcome the Shabbath Queen, what and whose memory am I honoring, and how?
Google “halo effect” and then let’s talk about why we tolerate great men assaulting women in our communities.