 She also spent a summer at Camp Sternberg; both locations deepened her commitment to Judaism.When her parents moved again to California, she remained in New York, boarding with the family of noted posek Rabbi Noach Isaac Oelbaum and attending Shevach High School.She was encouraged by Rabbi Nuta Waidenbaum of Milk and Honey Productions to make a career in Jewish music and gave her first women-only performance during a Chanukkah production at Brooklyn College when she was 18.