About
Sabbath Queen, directed and produced by filmmaker Sandi DuBowski, follows the unconventional journey of the charismatic Amichai Lau-Lavie as he struggles to reconcile his traditional upbringing with his queerness and unconventional beliefs. Born into a distinguished orthodox Israeli family, Lau-Lavie became a drag queen, created innovative communities such as Storahtelling and New York’s Lab/Shul, was ordained as a Conservative rabbi (making him the 39th generation of rabbis in his family) and continues to be a social activist today. DuBowski followed Lau-Lavie for 21 years to make this award-winning film that “interrogates what Jewish survival means in a difficult rapidly changing 21st century.” Lau-Lavie and DuBowski are in conversation with Lau-Lavie’s longtime friend, journalist and writer Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, author of Theodore Bikel’s The City of Light, about it means to be in the “messy middle.”
More
Sign up for Moment’s upcoming Zoominars—and watch all our past events—here!