Abby Stein is a proud Jewish woman. But growing up, she didn’t feel that Judaism had a space for people like her. Abby was raised in an ultra-Orthodox hasidic Jewish community, and as she puts ...

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.

Discover Abby Stein's transformative journey from a sheltered Hasidic upbringing in Brooklyn to embracing her identity as a ...

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.

Abby Chava Stein, an American transgender author, activist, blogger, model, speaker and rabbi, relaxes on the Resort Deck of Celebrity Apex. (Annie Leibovitz for Celebrity Cruises' All Inclusive ...

Abby Chava Stein, an American transgender author, activist, blogger, model, speaker and rabbi, relaxes on the Resort Deck of Celebrity Apex. (Annie Leibovitz for Celebrity Cruises’ All Inclusive Photo ...

Abby Stein, author of the 2019 memoir “Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman,” was alerted last Wednesday that the adaptation of her book would no longer be ...

For this transgender Orthodox Jew, blogging was her lifeline Abby Stein didn’t use the Internet until she was 20. Carrie Nelson Updated on May 27 2021 1:06 pm CDT ...

Stein said that those gender dynamics and segregation made life hard for her. “I knew I was a girl since I remember myself. However, there was no way to explore that in any way or form,” she said.

The sixth of thirteen children, Abby began her life as a boy named Srully Abraham Stein. “I went to an all-boys Hasidic school,” she says, “where the was no real English or math education.

Abby Stein of Irvine and eight friends and relatives cut 12 inches from their hair on Aug. 31 in a cut-a-thon to support Wigs for Kids. Stein, a 12-year-old South Lake Middle School student, had ne… ...