Cantor Aaron Shifman is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa and is a sixth generation Cantor. He trained to beome a Cantor under the tutelage of his uncle, Cantor Yehuda Shifman and his father, Cantor Baruch Shifman, Cantor Daniel Gildar and Cantor Abraham Davis. Cantor Shifman studied at Touro College in New York City and the Talmudical Academy of New Jersey for four years. Cantor Shifman led his first High Holiday service at eighteen years of age in Miami. At age twenty one he was hired as a Cantor.

Cantor Shifman was the Cantor for Temple Beth Moshe in North Miami, Florida for seven years. Cantor Shifman headed the Bar Mitzvah Program, all the Choirs, and was the Musical Director of the Early Childhood Program and Religious School. Cantor Shifman then went on to Congregation Beth Shalom in Coconut Creek, Florida from 1996 until he arrive in Cleveland, Ohio to join B'nai Jeshurun Congregation in November, 1998. Cantor Shifman has successfully integrated classical cantorial with contemporary music and has produced five albums.