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Employing a DIY, grass-
roots strategy and funding via 
Kickstarter and other cam-
paigns, Orshalimy has built a 
dedicated audience through 
house concerts and other inti-
mate appearances, including for 
synagogues and cultural orga-
nizations. She’s released sev-
eral albums of her own music 
and works with her husband 
as a duo called We Are the 
Northern Lights. “Witchcraft,
” 
meanwhile, is a sequel to her 
first jazz album, “It Never Was 
You,
” which she released during 
December of 2019 after creating 
a Great American Songbook 
repertoire to perform at a 
reception in New York for for-
mer President Barack Obama.
“The first album did have 
some female Jewish writers on 
there, but it wasn’t a major-
ity,
” she says. During virtual 
concerts she produced during 
the pandemic lockdown, 
Orshalimy’s fans began to ask 
for a sequel, which inspired her 
to “do a little more research” 
into the realm of Jewish female 
writers for “Witchcraft.
”
“What I found is almost all of 
them are lyricists,
” Orshalimy 
says, “and the lyrics these 
women wrote were so heartfelt 

and powerful, just little nuances 
here and there in the way they 
expressed emotions. I think 
there was something about the 
live-or-die kind of situation 
they were in that just made 
them hustle like there’s no 
tomorrow and made the emo-
tions run so strong. Everything 
was felt so fiercely, the love and 
the loss and the pain and the 
struggle. 
“It’s so different than what 
you hear in (pop) music today.
”
Orshalimy has built a show 
around “Witchcraft” and other 
standards, with a “storytelling” 
aspect from her research. She’s 
also recorded a third album 
of additional Great American 
Songbook material she plans 
to release in the future — and 
a list of other projects she’ll get 
to as time and circumstances 
allow. 
“We have many songs — so 
many songs. There’s never a 
shortage of those,
” she says. 
“There’s always the next album, 
and the next album ... It’s the 
work of my life, so I want to 
just keep doing it and move 
forward.
” 

You can purchase “Witchcraft” at 

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