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Transgender rabbi Abby Stein’s coming-out story takes the spotlight in a new play

JL;DR SUMMARY Abby Chava Stein, the first openly transgender female rabbi from a Hasidic background, is the subject of "Becoming Eve," a new play adapted from her memoir. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Hasidic JudaismTransgenderGender IdentityJewish ActivismJewish TheaterTrans RightsJewish StorytellingBecoming EveAbby Chava SteinMemoir Adaptation

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New York, United States
"The one-act, 110-minute New York Theater Workshop production, which opens off-Broadway on April 7, chronicles Steins journey from serving as a male Hasidic rabbi in Williamsburg, Brooklyn"
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Steins journey from serving as a male Hasidic rabbi in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to becoming an outspoken transgender activist and writer."
Manhattan, New York, United States
"Currently in previews, Becoming Eve, will run at the Abrons Arts Center on Manhattans Lower East Side through April 27."
Park Slope, New York, United States
"said Stein, who last year became a part-time rabbi at Kolot Chayeinu, a progressive synagogue in Park Slope."
Ukraine
"Weinstein said, pointing to a Ukrainian shtetl in the 19th century that accepted a transgender man,"

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