Mar

21 2021

MJCC Author Series featuring Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve

4:30PM - 6:00PM  

Contact Len Steinberg
503-535-3555
lsteinberg@oregonjcc.org
http://www.oregonjcc.org

$ Cost $ 8.00

LIVE on Zoom!
 
Abby Stein is the tenth-gen­er­a­tion descen­dant of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Hasidic move­ment. In 2015, Stein came out as a woman, and she now works as a trans activist. In 2019, she served on the steer­ing com­mit­tee for the Wom­en’s March in Wash­ing­ton, DC, and she was named by the Jew­ish Week as one of the “36 Under 36” Jews who are affect­ing change in the world. She lives in New York City. Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews.
 
But Abby felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. She suppressed her desire for a new body while looking for answers wherever she could find them, from forbidden religious texts to smuggled secular examinations of faith. Finally, she orchestrated a personal exodus from ultra-Orthodox manhood to mainstream femininity-a radical choice that forced her to leave her home, her family, her way of life.
 
Powerful in the truths it reveals about biology, culture, faith, and identity, Becoming Eve poses the enduring question: How far will you go to become the person you were meant to be?
 
 
Co-sponsored by: Congregation Shaarie Torah, Congregation Neveh Shalom, Congregation Shir Tikvah, Congregation Beth Israel and Havurah Shalom

Sponsor: Congregation Shaarie Torah, Congregation Neveh Shalom, Congregation Shir Tikvah, Congregation Beth Israel and Havurah Shalom