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SUMMARY:Abby Stein Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Abby Stein will be signing copies of her new book Becoming Eve over the lunch hour on Friday. \nCome by to say hi and grab your copy of this remarkable book! \nWhen: \nFriday November 22 \n12 to 12:45pm \nWhere: \nBen McNaly Books \n366 Bay Street \n\n \nThe powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman \n\nAbby 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. \nBut 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. \nPowerful 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?\n\n\n\n\nAbby 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. \n\n\n000000
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LOCATION:Ben McNally Books\, 108 Queen Street East\, Toronto\, ON\, M5C1S6\, Canada
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