Sunday, June 14th at 7PM

Presented in partnership with Congregation Ahavas Achim

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. 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.

“…A riveting religious odyssey…” - Stephen Salto, The Moveable Feast

“Sabbath Queen shrewdly asks hard questions about what it means to be Jewish in the 21st centuty.” - Ryan Lattanzio, Indiewire

(US / 2024 / Directed by Sandi Simcha Dubowski)
Unrated / 1 hr 45 min