EXCLUSIVE: A documentary over two decades in the making is about to reach theaters – Sandi DuBowski’s Sabbath Queen, winner of awards at the recent Hamptons International Film Festival and Woodstock ...

EXCLUSIVE: One of the films premiering in Documentary Competition at Tribeca Festival has been in the making for an astonishing length of time – 21 years. Sabbath Queen, directed by Sandi DuBowski, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amichai Lau-Lavie wants to get inside the system of Judaism like a virus. A Radical Faerie, a drag queen, a rabbi, and an openly ...

There is a moment smack in the middle of the sprawling, subversive new documentary Sabbath Queen where the film’s subject, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, explodes with anger. It is 2014, during the last ...

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 ...

If director Sandi DuBowski's documentary "Sabbath Queen" has a mantra, it's a line delivered twice in the film by principal subject Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie in his drag persona, Rebbetzin Hadassah ...

Amichai Lau-Lavie in full drag as Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross, Purim 1998. “My grandfather led his congregation into the gas chamber,” Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie says in “Sabbath Queen,” a new documentary ...

New York director Sandi DuBowski, 54, met Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie on a trip to Jerusalem in 1998. The Harvard alum was searching for interview subjects for what would become his 2001 documentary, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What does it mean to be a Jew? Who gets to be a Jew? These are some of the most ancient questions in Jewish doctrine and also the ...