November 13th, 2018
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Abby Stein (born 1991) is an American transgender activist,[1] blogger,[2] and speaker. 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.[3] In 2015, she founded the first support group nationwide for trans people of Orthodox background.[4] Stein is also the first openly transgender woman to have been ordained by an Orthodox institution, having received her rabbinical degree in 2011, from an Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic school.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Stein
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