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Shari Rabin

College of Charleston

Shari Rabin is an assistant professor of Jewish studies and acting director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston. She received her PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University in 2015.

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