Zohran Mamdani taps trans rabbi for mayoral transition team

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Zohran Mamdani taps trans rabbi for mayoral transition team

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/zohran-mamdani-taps-trans-rabbi-for-mayoral-transition-team/ 🔗

Faefyx Collington (1 Dec 2025)

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed Abby Stein, a trans woman and Rabbi, to his expansive transition team. The choice – in line with many of Mamdani's promises – has upset some folks on the right.

Before being appointed to the transition team, Stein supported his mayoral bid, appearing in his "Jews for Zohran" campaign. "We know Zohran will fight to make our city affordable and safe for our families," Stein said in an ad. "As Jews, as rabbis, as New Yorkers, we believe that all people deserve to thrive. Zohran agrees."

Mamdani, who won the NYC mayoral election at the start of November, beating out former Governor Andrew Cuomo, will be sworn in on January 1, 2026. Ahead of that, he is setting up a wealth of transition committees, which will help prepare his administration to hit the ground running on day one.

Stein was raised in an Orthodox Hasidic Jewish family. After suppressing her gender identity since childhood, she left the Hasidic community in 2012 and came out as trans in 2015.

Now identifying as ex-Orthodox, Stein is still a practicing Rabbi, serving part-time at Brooklyn's Kolot Chayein synagogue. She released her first book in 2019, a memoir titled Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman. That memoir has since been adapted into the off-Broadway play of the same name.

[Lori Dee ✅]

I thought you said he appointed a "trans rabbit." An excellent move, but the trans Rabbi is a better choice.

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[tgirlamg]

I thought you said he appointed a "trans rabbit." An excellent move, but the trans Rabbi is a better choice.

😁

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[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Every transition team should include a trans person. After all, that's what we do!

Love always -- Jessica Rose

[Lori Dee ✅]

Every transition team should include a trans person.

Or a trans rabbit. Or Rabbi.