"This album manages that really difficult trick of being sophisticated but maintaining an edge. Two-thirds of the material is traditional Sephardic from Morocco, the rest are originals, some co-written with her mother Shoshana Karbasi. Her wonderfully elastic, soulful, fluttering vocals are beautifully placed in inventive arrangements, perfectly sequenced so that, for example, the classic big ballad La Blanca Paloma with evocative clarinet and touches of bouzouki is followed by the urgent, pulsing Aunque Le Dí La Mano with [guitarist/producer Joe] Taylor on electric guitar ... The a cappella Ay Si Te Fueres A Bañar Novia is a vocal tour-de-force of layered Karbasi and Taylor that manages to be Spanish, barbershop, Balkan and monastic all at the same time: a small classic ... When Mor first emerged, some begrudgingly put her down the pecking order from that other fine Ladino songstress Yasmin Levy. But with La Tsadika, I think the Karbasi/Taylor team have completelyestablishedher as a distinctively different force who more than deserves to be considered as a major artist with equal stature".
