Cantor Shira Ginsburg is a celebrated actress, singer, and playwright who tours the country extensively with her one-woman musical, Bubby’s Kitchen, which premiered to rave reviews in NYC in 2016, and is now in development as a television series. She has performed all over the world, notably joining Norm Louis on his 2025 Broadway Concert Tour as a featured guest performer. Cantor Ginsburg is the founder of Jewishly Ever After, a private Jewish lifecycle event company, and she travels worldwide performing and officiating. She holds the distinguished title of Cantor Emerita of East End Temple of Manhattan where she served as Senior Cantor for 18 years. Cantor Ginsburg has released five albums, most recently her collaboration entitled ‘I Will Cover You.‘ with Grammy award winner Ben Wisch, All of her albums are available on all streaming platforms.
Cantor Shira Ginsburg is the recipient of the 2019 Lev Aryeh, Heart of a Lion Award from the Jewish Partisans Educational Foundation, Women of Reform Judaism Award, Cantorial Alumni Association Prize, and Sylvia Davidson Memorial Award for extraordinary diligence in mastering Chazzanut. Cantor Ginsburg teaches Holocaust studies in middle and high school classrooms as a founding member of 3rd Generation Holocaust Survivors program ‘We Educate’ in partnership with Facing History Facing Ourselves, served on the Jewish Partisans Education Foundations Young Leadership Board, and was an annual panelist on the Gerecht Institute for Conversion. Cantor Shira Ginsburg has been a guest lecturer at Hebrew Union College, and Moishe House, and has served on the Israel Task Force at the UJA. Cantor Ginsburg earned her Masters and Cantorial degrees, and ordination from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion as a Messinger Scholar and MFA from Syracuse University’s Musical Theatre program.
