Bonus: Man, I Feel Like A Woman, Revisited

Yiscah Smith lives in a small home in Nachlaot, in Jerusalem. But her journey to this half-Orthodox-half-hipster neighborhood spans what feels like four lifetimes. She was born as Jeff, into a Conservative Jewish family from Long Island. She then met a woman, married, and together they moved to Israel. The couple became increasingly religious, and Jeff soon became known as Ya’akov – a Chabad rabbi in the Old City, and the father of six children. A few years later, Ya’akov was faced with a terrible dilemma – what do you do when you realize that in order to be true to yourself, you have to shatter everything around you, including the lives of those you love most?

But this isn’t just a story, or isn’t only a story, about gender transition. It’s a story of courage, of discovery and of a relentless quest to live an authentic life.