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- Birth nameYisroel Avrum Stein
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Abby Stein is a Jewish educator, speaker, and trans activist. She was born and raised in a Chasidic family of rabbinic descent; she is the 10th generation of the Baal Shem Tov - Founder of the Chasidic movement. In that world Abby attended Yeshiva, completing a rabbinical degree in 2011. In 2012, she left the Chasidic world to explore different world views. In 2015 Abby came out as a Woman of trans experience. Since coming out, she has been doing work towards her goal to raise awareness and support people going through a similar experience. Her story has been covered in the New York Times, New York Post, New York Magazine, Jewish Daily Forward, Daily Mail, NBC, and more, as well as live appearances on Fox News, CNN, HuffPost Live, ShowTime and more. In 2016 Abby was named by The Jewish Week as one of the 36 Under 36 young Jews who are affecting change in the world. She is a third year student at Columbia University, studying women's and gender studies, and political science.
- IMDb mini biography by: Limmud NY
- SpouseFraidy Horowitz(December 2010 - June 2013) (divorced, 1 child)
- I have mood swings, but I can deal with that by watching Netflix and eating pickles
- Society expects trans women to be perfect the way they expect all women to be perfect. People exotic-ise you [trans individuals] in a weird way. They conflate sexuality and gender, which have nothing to do with each other. If you date women, it's like, 'Oh, you like women, so you wanted to become one'. If you like guys, it's 'Oh, you're gay, but you didn't want to be, so you transitioned'.
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