Due to their constant touring, she lived primarily with her maternal grandmother, Sarah, a religious Jew of Moroccan and Iraqi heritage who traced her lineage to the famous Sephardic rabbi Ben Ish Hai.
She applied to Louis Armstrong Middle School but was disqualified after she was caught skipping class, and instead attended Yeshiva Academy of South Queens under Rabbi Zalman Deutscher.
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.
Her third album, How Come, How Long?, was dedicated to victims of the September 11 attacks and includes covers of songs by Yehuda!, Mendy Wald, and Shloime Dachs.
The organization is named after Kineret's grandmother and was encouraged early on by Rebbetzin Rachel Baraness and the late Rav Ovadia Yosef.