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‘Sabbath Queen’ Creators Preach to the Choir About a Rabbi Who Performs Drag: ‘Choirs These Days Need a Lot of Preaching’
Sandi DuBowski's 'Sabbath Queen' spotlights a gay rabbi that performs drag in Israel
Filmed over 21 years, the documentary follows Lau-Lavie, who is a queer father or two, as he struggles to come to terms with the cultural and religious strictures of the Orthodox Judaism he was raised in and his identity as a gay, drag queen. Following this boundary-pushing ceremony, Lau-Lavie admits that he “broke the law” according to Jewish Theological Seminary teachings he has pledged to uphold, and goes on to say that he enrolled with JTS largely to become “a virus inside the system. As the founder of Lab/Shul, an everybody-friendly, God-optional, pop-up experimental congregation, Lau-Lavie is on a lifelong quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion and ritual, challenge patriarchy and supremacy, champion interfaith love, stand up for peace and ceasefire, and an end to the occupation in Israel/Palestine.
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