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Why Abby Stein—a transgender rabbi raised ultra-orthodox—stands up for Palestine | The Marc Steiner Show
Raised in an ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, Rabbi Abby Stein has had a long, painful, beautiful journey to coming out as a transgender woman and becoming a fierce opponent of Zionism and Israel’s Occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Rabbi Stein about her journey, and about the need to simultaneously fight Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the right’s fascist assault on the rights of LGBTQ+ people here in the US.Guest:
Rabbi Abby Stein is the tenth-generation descendant of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of…
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