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
Join us for an in-person post film discussion with Rabbi Aaron Portman. 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 Partner: Cincinnati Hillel and elech: Creating Queer Jewish Belonging
