Transgender rabbi Abby Stein’s coming-out story takes the spotlight in a new play - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Transgender rabbi Abby Stein’s coming-out story takes the spotlight in a new play - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

​​​​When Abby Chava Stein, 33, stepped away from her ultra-Orthodox upbringing, she wasn’t just leaving behind her way of life and her family — she was stepping into her authentic self. Now, the first openly transgender female rabbi from a Hasidic background takes center stage in “Becoming Eve,” a new play adapted from Stein’s 2019 bestselling memoir of the same name. The one-act, 110-minute New York Theater Workshop production, which opens off-…