page_title: Abby Stein
hierarchical_section_title: Abby Stein
caption_attribution_description: English: Abby Stein is interviewed by Randi Reed at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
context_page_description: Abby Stein is an American transgender author, activist, blogger, model, speaker, and rabbi. 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. In 2015, she founded the first support group nationwide for trans people of Orthodox background.
  Stein is also the first woman, and the first openly transgender woman, to have been ordained by an Orthodox institution, having received her rabbinical degree in 2011, before coming out as transgender. While she has not worked as a rabbi after leaving till at least 2016, by 2020 she had re-embraced her title as rabbi, and is working in many capacities as a rabbi. In 2018, she co-founded Sacred Space, a multifaith project "which celebrates women and nonbinary people of all faith traditions."
context_section_description: Abby Stein (born October 1, 1991) is an American transgender author, activist, blogger, model, speaker, and rabbi. 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. In 2015, she founded the first support group nationwide for trans people of Orthodox background.
  Stein is also the first woman, and the first openly transgender woman, to have been ordained by an Orthodox institution, having received her rabbinical degree in 2011, before coming out as transgender. While she has not worked as a rabbi after leaving till at least 2016, by 2020 she had re-embraced her title as rabbi, and is working in many capacities as a rabbi. In 2018, she co-founded Sacred Space, a multifaith project "which celebrates women and nonbinary people of all faith traditions."
caption: Stein in 2019
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