Above: Stein wears a jacket by Bally. Sloan coffee table by Ana Kraš for Matter Made. Right: She wears a blazer by Christian Wijnants and trousers by The Break. Previous: She wears a dress by Vaquera and a turtleneck by The Break. At 29, Abby Stein occupies a unique position: She is the first publicly transgender woman to have grown up in the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community. Today, the Columbia graduate is a speaker, activist and the author of Becoming Eve: My Journey From Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman. But getting to this point has taken incalculable grit. Stein grew up in a prestigious, rabbinical family in an enclave of Williamsburg that felt more like a 19th-century Eastern European shtetl than Brooklyn, This story is from Kinfolk Issue Thirty-Eight Buy Now Related Stories Arts & Culture Fashion Issue 38 Needle Work In Seoul, the ancient art of tattoo is thrown into sharp relief. Arts & Culture Issue 38 NEW RITUALS Ritual Design Lab suggests new rituals to mark the petty losses and small triumphs that pass without ceremony. Arts & Culture Issue 38 SHEDDING SKIN In her series Shedding Skin, photographer Yumna Al-Arashi offers an intimate insight into communal hammam traditions. Arts & Culture Issue 38 Alua Arthur Death doula Alua Arthur talks to Kyla Marshell about preparing for life's final ritual. Arts & Culture Issue 38 Essay: On Witchcraft Rebecca Liu meets a new generation of “baby witches” finding strength in the supernatural. Arts & Culture Issue 38 It’s All Greek Stephanie d’Arc Taylor considers the role of ritual in shaping America's strained Greek system.
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