About Shira Kline

I am a Jewish musician, educator, and performer living in New York City. For the past fourteen years, I have worked with a diverse array of Jewish communities in New York and throughout the country. I work with national organizations, synagogues, museums, Jewish Community Centers, schools, families, students, and theatre companies. At fourteen, I began teaching sacred music and Hebrew in Monroe, Louisiana at Temple B'nai Israel with my father, Rabbi David Kline. From the South, I went to Sarah Lawrence College where I continued teaching music at Kol Ami in White Plains, NY. Since college, I have continued to develop my approach to Jewish learning through music, dance, prayer, tradition, and Torah.

My family infused every moment of life with Jewish celebration and love for all aspects of Judaism-special homemade foods, singing and dancing to Jewish music, exploring and reveling in all holidays, ethics, lessons learned through Jewish eyes. My father taught me meditation as a form of prayer at a very early age. My mother brought in each Shabbat with her beautiful candle-lighting and homemade challah and at bedtime my father sent me to sleep with sweet dreams of Shabbat angels.

In all of my work, I strive toward the path of Oneness with ourselves, Oneness with God and the beauty of the world around us.