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How Hasidic rabbis helped an Orthodox father of six become a transgender woman

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New documentary premiering October 17 in Haifa depicts how former Chabad adherent Yiscah Smith comes to terms with gender dysphoria and becomes the woman she always was

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How Hasidic rabbis helped an Orthodox father of six become a transgender woman

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