Abby Stein
| Abby Chava Stein | |
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Stein talking at UC Berkeley, April 2016
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| Born |
October 1, 1991 New York, NY, United States |
| Residence | New York, NY |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Columbia University (currently attending) |
| Occupation | blogger, activist, speaker |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Known for | Transgender activism, First openly Hasidic Trans Woman |
| Home town | Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) |
| Weight | 125 lb (57 kg) |
| Television | Dark Net (TV series) |
| Spouse(s) | Fraidy Horowitz (m. 2010 div. 2013) |
| Children | Duvid Stein |
| Parent(s) | Rabbi Menachem Mendel Stein, Chaya Stein |
| Website | The Second Transition |
Abby Stein (born 1991) is an American transgender activist, blogger, and speaker. She is the first openly transgender woman from a Hasidic community, and is a direct descendant of Hasidic Judaism's founder the Baal Shem Tov. In 2015, she founded the first support group nationwide for trans people of Orthodox background.
Stein is also the first openly transgender woman to have been ordained by an Orthodox institution, having received her rabbinical degree in 2012, from an Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic school. To date, she is also thus the only female rabbi to have been ordained by an Ultra-Orthodox institution. However, she was ordained before transitioning, and is not working as a rabbi as of 2016.
Stein was born in 1991 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. She is the 6th child out of 13 to a family of notable Hasidic leaders. She grew up speaking Yiddish and Hebrew, and attended an all boys Jewish Day School, in a society where everything is determined by gender roles. For high school she went to the Viznitz Yeshiva in Kiamesha Lake, Upstate New York, from where she also got a rabbinical degree in 2011. In 2012 she left the Hasidic community, and went off the derech, and in 2014 she started school at Columbia University's School of General Studies.
In November 2015 Stein made headlines when she came out on her blog as transgender, and started physical transition. She was featured in most major news papers, such as New York Times,New York Post,New York Magazine,NBC,Daily Dot,Daily Mail and more. She also appeared on TV, on CNN,Fox News,HuffPost Live, and Vice Canada.
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