Sabbath Queen: A Film Screening for PRIDE Month
Tuesday, June 17 at 7pm at Falmouth Jewish Congregation
Tickets: Members | General Admission | Youth 18 and under
Purchase your tickets here: https://www.falmouthjewish.org/event/sabbath-queen-a-film-screening-for-pride-month-060725/
Open to the public - Everyone is welcome - Accessible to all
Sabbath Queen (Dir. Sandi DuBowski)
Feature | United States | 105 MINUTES | English, Hebrew, Yiddish | English subtitles
"ENTHRALLING.. It is one of the best films I’ve seen this year." Hollywood Reporter
A New York Times Critic's Pick
Read the review by Jodi Rudorin in The Forward: Welcoming ‘Sabbath Queen,’ a new documentary about a rabbi who breaks all boundaries
Falmouth Jewish Congregation is pleased to invite you to this special film screening to mark and celebrate PRIDE month this June. Sabbath Queen, like its subject, dares to ask what Jewish survival means in a difficult rapidly changing 21st century. It is a film that can resonate with every person, regardless of their faith tradition and beliefs.
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) who is torn between rejecting and embracing his ancestral 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 in Manhattan. With incredible access to his subject over the course of decades, award-winning director Sandi DuBowski (Trembling Before G_D) joins Rabbi Amichai on his lifelong quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion and ritual while challenging gender norms, patriarchy and supremacy.
Learn more about the film at https://www.sabbathqueen.com/
About Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie (from the website of Lab/Shul)
Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie (he/him) is the Founding Spiritual Leader of Lab/Shul NYC and the creator of Storahtelling, Inc. An Israeli-born Jewish educator, writer, and performance artist, he received his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2016. Rabbi Amichai is a founding member of the Jewish Emergent Network, serves on the Leadership Council of the New York Jewish Agenda, is a member of the Global Justice Fellowship of the American Jewish World Service, the Advisory Council for the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, an advisor to the Jerusalem Open House, and is a founding faculty member of the Reboot Network.
Rabbi Amichai has been hailed as “an iconoclastic mystic” by Time Out New York, a “rock star” by the New York Times, a “Judaic Pied Piper” by the Denver Westword, a “maverick spiritual leader” by The Times of Israel and “one of the most interesting thinkers in the Jewish world” by the Jewish Week. In June 2017 Rabbi Amichai published the JOY Proposal, offering a new response to the reality of Intermarriage and taking on a personal position on this issue, including his resignation from the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement.
In 2022 Rabbi Amichai began publishing Below the Bible Belt, a daily digital project extended over 42 months, critically queering and re-reading all 929 chapters of the Hebrew Bible.
Amichai is Abba to Alice, Ezra and Charlotte.
About Sandi DuBowski (from the Sabbath Queen website: https://www.sabbathqueen.com/team )
Sandi DuBowski is the Director/Producer of Sabbath Queen, Director/Producer of Trembling Before G-d, Producer of A Jihad for Love, and Co-Producer of Budrus.
His award-winning work has screened at Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca and Toronto, theatrically released in 150 cities, and broadcast on ZDF/Arte, BBC, Channel 4, PBS.
In 2020, he was invited to become a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. DuBowski spearheaded a groundbreaking impact campaign with the award-winning Trembling Before G-d, personally conducting 850 live events, for over 250,000 people, which changed the lives of countless individuals, their families, religious leaders, and communities around the world. Feature stories on the project appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Globe and Mail, and BBC News.
From 2009-2016, DuBowski worked with over 125 of the world’s best social justice documentaries as the Outreach Director of Doc Society’s Good Pitch. He is Co-Founder of The Creative Resistance, a collective of media makers who create award-winning political ads and design. In the mid-1990’s he began his media and activism work at Planned Parenthood Federation of America focused on the Christian right and the anti-abortion movement.
Three generations of DuBowski’s family made chocolate syrup in Deep Coastal Brooklyn.