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Abby Stein | Courtesy of Kate Johnson When rabbi and transgender activist Abby Stein was growing up in her Chasidic community, there was no word for “transgender” in her first language of Yiddish.
Author Abby Stein shares her story of transitioning from an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Hasidic boy into the woman she is today at B'Nai Harim on Thursday.
For this transgender Orthodox Jew, blogging was her lifeline Abby Stein didn’t use the Internet until she was 20.
Abby Stein, the first known openly transgender person from the Hasidic community, is spreading LGBTQ awareness in the Jewish Orthodox community.
Abby Chava Stein knew her truth before she had words for it, or had ever heard of its existence: “I am a girl.” But all said she was a Hasidic boy.
(JTA) — Abby Stein remembers two things well about her first-ever editorial photo shoot after coming out as an ex-Orthodox trans woman. The first was that the shoot, in her bedroom for Vogue ...
The first thing that Abby Stein wants the world to know is that she did not leave her ultra-Orthodox community solely to become a woman. Since she came out this past August, Stein has been ...
Judaism, contrary to their belief, does not require – nor does it even ask – Jews to ignore antisemitism in the name of ...
Abby Stein, a trans Jewish educator and rabbi, and Lily Greenberg Call, a former Biden administration staffer, were kicked out the White House Pride celebration two weeks ago after the women began ...
As the first person from the Hasidic community to come out as transgender, Abby Stein is a pioneer. Stein recounted her experiences in the book “Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Abby Stein is a Rabbi with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2019 Rally as a Member for Steering Committee in the Women's March on ...
An exterior view of the Connelly Theater, where an adaptation of the memoir of ex-Hasidic transgender activist Abby Stein was set to take place before theater owner and landlord, the Archdiocese ...