Hot Docs: Sabbath Queen

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. 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.

Lau-Lavie is on a lifelong quest to reinvent religion and ritual both creatively and radically, challenge patriarchy and supremacy, champion interfaith love, and stand up for peace, a ceasefire and an end to the occupation in Israel/Palestine. Sabbath Queen interrogates what Jewish survival means in a difficult and rapidly changing 21st century.

In English, Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitles.

Join director Sandi DuBowski for a Q&A after each screening.

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