THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 7:30 PM • ALEXANDER GRASS CAMPUS FOR JEWISH LIFE
SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2:00 PM • MIDTOWN CINEMA 

SABBATH QUEEN

USA, 2024/Documentary, 105 minutes/English/Written by Francisco Bello, Sandi DuBowski, Jeremy Stulberg/Directed by Sandi DuBowski

A remarkable feature documentary filmed over 21 years, Sabbath Queen follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis, including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. Torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and honoring his own identity as a Jew and a gay man, Amichai becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation.  Sabbath Queen joins Amichai on a lifelong quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion and ritual, challenge patriarchy and supremacy, champion interfaith love, and stand up for peace, ceasefire, and an end to the Occupation in Israel/Palestine. The film interrogates what Jewish survival means in a difficult rapidly changing 21st century.

Generously sponsored by David Skerpon and Chris Baldrige