Join the Or Chadash community for a screening of SABBATH QUEEN, a film which follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie on his 21-year journey to reinvent religion and ritual, challenge patriarchy, and advocate for peace, interfaith love, and gender equality. The film’s powerful exploration of re-imagining spirituality, Jewish family, queer identity, and gender equality offers a unique opportunity to engage with urgent and timely conversations. 

Synopsis: Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, a dynastic heir of 38 generations of rabbis, arrives in New York City in the 1990s, a creative young gay man who uses performance art—including appearing in drag as Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross, widow to six rabbis—to challenge patriarchal orthodoxy. Founder of Lab/ Shul, the “god-optional, pop-up, experimental Jewish community,” Lau-Lavie shocks everyone when he decides to become a rabbi himself, studying in the conservative tradition of Judaism so he has the knowledge to challenge the canon from within. Provocative and engaging, SABBATH QUEEN is an exhilarating document of freedom, faith, independence, and individuality.

In addition to the film screening, there will be a Q&A with Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, director Sandi DuBowski, and Rabbis Lizzi Heydemann and Steven Philp (Mishkan Chicago).

You must purchsae your tickets on the Siskel Film Center website. Register below to let us know you'll be in attendance so we can coordinate on the day-of. 

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE.