SABBATH QUEEN, a feature documentary filmed over 21 years, follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. 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, 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. The film interrogates what Jewish survival means in a difficult rapidly changing 21st century.

Sabbath Queen is now in 65 film festivals, 50 cinemas, received a New York Times Critic’s Pick and was named one of the New York Times’ favorite films of the 21st century, and has won 8 awards including Boston Jewish Film Festival’s Audience Award for Best Documentary and UK Jewish Film Festival’s Best Documentary.

The screening will be followed by a talkback with Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie and Sandi DuBowski.

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