Yeshivath Viznitz (semikhah) Columbia University (BA)
Occupations
Activist
author
Years active
2012–present
Known for
Transgender activism
Television
Dark Net
Spouse
Fraidy Horowitz
(m. 2010–2013)
Children
1
Writing career
Genre
non-fiction
Subjects
Memoir, LGBT literature, Jewish literature
Notable work
Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman
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Website
The Second Transition
Abby Chava Stein (born October 1, 1991[1]) is an Israeli-American transgender author, activist,[2] blogger,[3] model, speaker, and rabbi. She is the first openly transgender woman raised in a Hasidic community, and is a direct descendant of Hasidic Judaism's founder, the Baal Shem Tov.[4][5] In 2015, she founded one of the first support groups nationwide for trans people with an Orthodox Jewish background who have left Orthodox Judaism.[6]
Stein is also the first woman, and the first openly transgender woman, to have been ordained by an Orthodox Jewish institution, having received her rabbinical degree in 2011, before coming out as transgender.[7] Though Stein did not work as a rabbi after leaving Orthodox Judaism until at least 2016,[8] by 2020, she had re-embraced her title as rabbi, and currently works in many capacities as a rabbi.[9] In 2018, she co-founded Sacred Space, a multi-faith project "which celebrates women and non-binary people of all faith traditions".[10]
As of May 2024, Stein is serving as the interim rabbi of Kolot Chayeinu a progressive Non-denominational synagogue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York.[11]
^ abBecoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman
^"Gentile and the Jew with Yiscah Smith and Abby Stein". Omny. January 28, 2016. Archived from the original on June 17, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
^"The Second Transition". thesecondtransition.blogspot.com.
^JTA Staff (November 19, 2015). "Descendant of Hasidic Judaism Founder Comes Out as Transgender". JTA published by Haaretz. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
^Summer Luk (April 27, 2016). "Interview: Abby Stein talks about being a transgender woman from a Hasidic Jewish community". Glaad. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
^"TRANS MEET-UP with Abby Stein". Eshel Online. December 15, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
^"'Gender began punching me in the face': How a Hasidic rabbi came out as trans woman", Debra Nussbaum Cohen, Haaretz, February 17, 2017.
^"36 Under 36" Abby Stein, The Jewish Week
^Temple Shaaray Tefila (June 26, 2020). "WATCH: Rabbi Reines in Conversation with Abby Stein" (Video). shaaraytefilanyc.org. Retrieved June 30, 2020. On being called Rabbi…
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