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.”