February 25 @ 7:00 pm
2024 ∙ Documentary ∙ 105 minutes ∙ English, Hebrew, Yiddish ∙ Sandi Dubowski
Official Selection, 2024 Tribeca Festival
Filmed over 21 years, this documentary follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s epic journey as the dynastic heir of thirty-eight generations of Orthodox rabbis. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer bio-dad, and the founder of Lab/Shul –– an everybody-friendly, G-d-optional, artists-driven, pop-up experimental congregation. The film joins Rabbi Amichai on a lifelong and cinematic quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion, ritual, and love for a challenging, rapidly changing twenty-first century.
CONTENT WARNING: harsh language, graphic archival footage
SPECIAL FEATURE
DISCUSSION
Q + A DISCUSSION
Join us for an in-person post film Q+A with Sandi Dubowski, Director/Producer of Sabbath Queen, and Rabbi Aaron Portman.
Sandi Dubowski is the Director/Producer of Sabbath Queen, Director/Producer of Trembling Before G-d, Producer of A Jihad for Love, and Co-Producer of Budrus. In 2020, he was invited to become a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. DuBowski spearheaded a groundbreaking impact campaign with the award-winning Trembling Before G-d, personally conducting 850 live events, for over 250,000 people, which changed the lives of countless individuals, their families, religious leaders, and communities around the world.
Rabbi Aaron Portman serves as the Campus Rabbi and Senior Jewish Educator at OSU Hillel. He was ordained at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York in 2021. During his time at YCT, Aaron worked as a chaplain at Rikers and taught at City College. Before taking up his position at OSU Hillel, he participated in a Dorot Fellowship in Israel and worked as a chaplain at the Wexner Medical Center. Aaron is passionate about interfaith work, pluralism, and Jewish learning.
Presenting Partners: Cincinnati Hillel and elech: Creating Queer Jewish Belonging
