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'Gender began punching me in the face': How a Hasidic rabbi came out as trans woman

'Gender began punching me in the face': How a Hasidic rabbi came out as trans woman

Yisroel Stein is no longer an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, married or male. The only American Hasid to come out publ…

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Romeo + Juliet’s Tommy Dorfman Will Star in NYTW’s Becoming Eve

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By Emil Weinstein, Abby Stein, Linda Buchwald
| TheaterMania.com Verified
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) has announced that Tommy Dorfman (Romeo + Juliet, 13 Reasons Why) will star as Chava in Becoming Eve. Update, February 18: The full cast includes Judy Kuhn (Fun Home) as Mami, Tedra Millan (Leopoldstadt) as Fraidy, Rad Pereira (Betty) as Chesky, Justin Perkins (Shank’s Mare) as Puppeteer, Emmy Award winner Richard Schiff (The West Wing) as Tati, Tony Award winner Brandon Uranowitz (Leopoldstadt) as Jonah, and Emma Wiseman (Three Houses) as Puppeteer.
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We Spoke Up For Palestine and Got Kicked Out of the White House Pride Party

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By Abby Stein, Lily Greenberg Call
| Autostraddle Verified
This month, I (Abby Stein) was invited for the second time to attend the White House Pride Month Celebration. I was surprised to be invited, given that so many queer and Jewish activists I know who have been outspoken in their call for an immediate permanent ceasefire in Gaza and hostage exchange have not been invited back to White House events they were previously invited to.
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Queer Jewish Stories: The Memoirs that Inspired Me

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By Abby Stein, Adam Eli, Sara Glass, Sara Gluck
| Jewish Book Council
I was raised to believe that Judaism and queer­ness were mutu­al­ly exclu­sive, and that if I were to iden­ti­fy any­where along the LGBTQIA+ spec­trum, I would in effect be denounc­ing my sta­tus as a ​“real Jew.” As I labored to thread these two aspects of my iden­ti­ty togeth­er, I fought inter­nal­ized shame and self-denial. My debut mem­oir, Kiss­ing Girls on Shab­bat, is a recla­ma­tion of myself and a cel­e­bra­tion of queer Jew­ish pride and joy.
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