A Jewish comedian’s planned production was also booted from space owned by the Catholic Church. A theatrical production based on the memoir of an ex-Hasidic transgender rabbi and activist, set to ...

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed Abby Stein, a trans woman and Rabbi, to his expansive transition team.

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Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Netflix/Amazon/Robby Hoffman “If I’m acting, I’m going to really be acting,” she says. There is a lot of Hoffman in both ...

Those who are able to forgive their former community, their family and themselves show greater psychological gains in ...

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Lili Rosen’s one woman show, The Second Circumcision of Lili Rosen, about her gender transition and coming out to her Hasidic family, opens with an act of, well, opening. “Per my doctor’s orders, I ...

(New York Jewish Week) — A Jewish comedian’s planned production was also booted from space owned by the Catholic Church. The landlord? The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The production has ...