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Michelle Shain, M.A.
Research Associate
Michelle Shain is a Research Associate at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies. She received a BA in Anthropology and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University and has recently completed her MA studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before coming to the Cohen Center, Michelle worked for Research Success Technologies, doing program evaluation for Jewish non-profit ventures, and for the Jewish Policy Archive, building a database of current academic literature pertaining to Jewish communal policymaking in North America. She also worked with Synagogue 3000’s Synagogue Studies Institute and Mechon Hadar to prepare their 2007 report Emergent Jewish Communities and their Participants: Preliminary Findings from the 2007 National Spiritual Communities Study.