Sabbath Queen: Special Pride Screening at Crown Hill Theatre

Murmrr Presents: Sabbath Queen - Special Pride Screening

Q&A with Sandi DuBowski & Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie

Reception with Alvah Klempt + DJ Busquelo

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. Check out the trailer here.

"Awe-inspiring. Enthralling." - The Hollywood Reporter

"Provocative." - Variety

"Shrewdly asks hard questions about what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century." - IndieWire

Thank you to our partners ALBI, Ayin Press, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, Heeb Media, Israelis for Peace NYC, Kolot Chayeinu, Lab/Shul, MIX NYC, The LUNAR Collective, Moishe House Crown Heights, Reboot Studios, and Temple of the Stranger.