2023 Annual Fall Luncheon
Honoring author, activist, and rabbi, Abby Stein and benefiting NCJW NY’s Jews for Repro NY Campaign
November 14, 2023
Chiotes Hall | 337 E 74th St, New York, NY
12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Jews for Repro NY aims to reframe the narrative around religion, faith, and abortion. We partner with pro-choice congregations and Jewish communal groups to bring opportunities to stand up and speak out for abortion access — not in spite of our faith but because of it. Learn more here.
Abby Stein will be honored with The Rebekah Kohut Award. Named for the Founding President of NCJW NY, the award is given to a New Yorker who has played an especially significant role in the communal life of our city.
Abby Stein is a Jewish educator & rabbi, award winning author, speaker, and activist. She was born and raised in a Hasidic family of rabbinic descent, and is a direct descendant of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism. Abby attended Yeshiva, completing a rabbinical degree in 2011. In 2012, she left the Hasidic world to explore a self-determined life. In 2015 Abby came out as a woman of trans experience. Since coming out, she has been working to raise support and awareness for trans rights and those leaving Ultra-Orthodoxy.
Her story has been covered in the New York Times, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Jewish Daily Forward, Daily Mail, NBC, Vogue, InStyle, and more, as well as live appearances on CNN, Fox News, HuffPost Live, ShowTime, NowThis, PopSugar and internationally. In 2016, Abby was named by The Jewish Week as one of the “36 Under 36” young Jews who are inspiring change in the world, and in 2019 she was named by The Forward as one of the “Forward 50” most influential American Jews. In 2018 she was awarded the Pride Award by the Brooklyn Borough President.
She studied gender studies and political science at Columbia University in New York City. She currently serves on the National Council for Jewish Women’s “Rabbis For Repro” Advisory Board, as well as several other rabbinical boards.
Her memoir Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman was published by Seal Press in November 2019. Her second book, Sources of Pride, will be published by Ben Yehudah Press in 2023. She speaks regularly at universities, synagogues, and Jewish organizations across the globe, including the 92nd Street Y, Koffler Center for the Arts in Toronto, OUT@NBC Universal, and at the 2019 Women’s March in Washington, DC.
Host Committee:
Brad Bennett
Alisha Goodman
Cristina Miller
Mira Mircheva
Arikha Moses
Michal Raucher
Shari Teitelbaum
Hillary Zilz