BU: Sabbath Queen (+ director) (+ reception prior) (RSVP required)

BU: Sabbath Queen (+ director) (+ reception prior) (RSVP required)

Twenty-one years in the making, Sabbath Queen follows Amichai Lau-Lavie’s journey from radical drag queen to influential Rabbi of a God-optional, artist-driven New York synagogue. Join us for a screening of this documentary film and Q&A session with director Sandi DuBowski.Registration is required, and there will be a reception at the start of the event. There will also be a lecture with Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie on Tuesday, March 17. Register for that lecture here.Film SynopsisFilmed 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.https://butodayevents.bu.edu/event/sabbath-queen-screening

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