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Photo of "rabbi" Abby Stein omitted, to minimize reader nausea. An ad campaign from the “Jews for Zohran” caught our attention yesterday. We tracked down the “rabbis” in the ad. You won’t believe it, but one of them, “Rabbi” Abby Stein, is a transgender rabbi who was booted from a Biden White House shindig for disrupting the event with demands to end U.S. aid to Israel. This is my shocked face. Stein, a biological man, is the type of committed Jew who sat down for an interfaith dialogue with Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian just days before he launched nearly 200...

n anti-Israel transgender rabbi who was once tossed out of the White House has become the face of a “Jews for Zohran” ad — as she tries to rally support for socialist mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani in the final days of the election. Abby Stein, a part-time rabbi at Brooklyn’s progressive Kolot Chayein synagogue, is among a handful of female rabbis featured in the ad recently put out by the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JREJ). “We know Zohran will fight to make our city affordable and safe for our families,” Stein declared in the campaign ad.“As Jews, as...

A radical, anti-Israel Brooklyn rabbi sat down for a meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during the United Nations General Assembly, less than a week before Tehran launched nearly 200 missiles at Israel. Abby Stein, a part-time rabbi at the progressive Park Slope synagogue Kolot Chayeinu who was thrown out of the White House in June for calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, can be seen in photos of the event shared by Iranian state-owned Press TV. She was among roughly two dozen religious leaders, scholars and Iranian officials at the “meeting with leaders of divine religions,” the photos...