Sabbath Queen

“Sabbath Queen’ details decades long journey of Drag Queen turned radical Rabbi” – KTVU Fox 2

Q&A with filmmaker Sandi DuBowski following the Friday, January 10 & Saturday, January 11 screenings!

SABBATH QUEEN, a feature documentary filmed over 21 years, 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, ceasefire, and an end to the Occupation in Israel/Palestine. The film interrogates what Jewish survival means in a difficult rapidly changing 21st century.

SABBATH QUEEN is directed and produced by Sandi DuBowski.

Presented by OUTlook!