Sabbath Queen
Thu, Jul 17
|Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park
A screening of Sandi Dubowski's documentary Sabbath Queen which tells the story of Rabbi Amichai Lau Lavie, followed by a talkback with the director.
Time & Location
Jul 17, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park, 188 Prospect Park W, Brooklyn, NY 11215, USA
About the event
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.
After a World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and sold-out shows in New York, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, and the Bay Area, the critically acclaimed documentary Sabbath Queen comes for a Brooklyn Premiere for a special one-night-only screening at Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park. The evening will feature a post-screening filmmaker talkback…