{"id":623665,"date":"2024-06-10T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-face-off-between-notions-of-judaism\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T23:00:00","slug":"watch-a-face-off-between-notions-of-judaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-face-off-between-notions-of-judaism\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Face-Off Between Notions of Judaism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39ba5f9360d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39ba5f9360d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-face-off-between-notions-of-judaism\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Face-Off_Between_Notions_of_Judaism%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Face-Off Between Notions of Judaism&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-face-off-between-notions-of-judaism\/#%E2%80%9CA_Face-Off_Between_Notions_of_Judaism%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Face-Off Between Notions of Judaism&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Face-Off_Between_Notions_of_Judaism%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Face-Off Between Notions of Judaism&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Face-Off_Between_Notions_of_Judaism%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Face-Off Between Notions of Judaism&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    With the question \u201cWhat is a Jew?\u201d as much of a politicized hot potato these days as it\u2019s ever been, \u201cSabbath Queen\u201d adds plenty of fuel to an already fiery debate. Like director Sandi DuBowski\u2019s prior documentary \u201cTrembling Before G-d\u201d (2001), this long-aborning followup puts a spotlight on LGBTQ protagonists struggling to make a place for themselves within \u2014 or despite \u2014 the cultural and religious strictures of the Orthodox Judaism they were raised in. But principal subject Amichai Lau-Lavie has gone well beyond that to publicly promote notions of gay and interfaith marriage, among other progressive concepts considered heretical by many. His critics include members of his own family, whose rabbinical lineage can be traced back to the 11th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Shot over the course of 21 years, with archival materials going back much further, this is the kind of activist portrait whose sides seem so diametrically opposed, it\u2019s hard to imagine reconciliation is even possible. (And as noted here, conservative Orthodox communities are the only Jewish ones whose population keeps growing, leaving liberal secularist ones increasingly marginalized.) But this Tribeca premiere is sure to stir considerable dialogue as it <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>s the festival circuit and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Lau-Levie is introduced in 2017 New York City, where he\u2019s lived since 1997. He\u2019s officiating over a Jewish wedding between two men who are professed Buddhists, something he admits \u201call the other rabbis will consider\u2026 a breach,\u201d particularly as he\u2019s recently earned the title of rabbi himself on graduating from Manhattan\u2019s Jewish Theological Seminary. That institution has changed with the times in some respects (it admits gay and female students), but in others remains staunchly traditional, to the point of being regarded as the centre of U.S. Conservative Judaism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Following this boundary-pushing ceremony with his own personal Tashlich, or Ritual of Atonement, middle-aged Amichai is aware that he \u201cbroke the law\u201d according to teachings he\u2019d pledged to uphold. But then, he enrolled in JTS largely to become \u201ca virus inside the system,\u201d saying, \u201cNot everything that we\u2019ve inherited is worthy of being passed on \u2014 we need to look the 21st century in the eye.\u201d Further, \u201cThe change agent that I want to be in the world needs to come from the middle, to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach increasingly divisive voices in Judaism.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The multicultural, even \u201cGod-optional\u201d spirituality he\u2019s advanced in prior endeavors, like \u201cpop-up synagogue\u201d community Lab\/Shul and educational theatre group Storahtelling, appalls some observers now that he wears the official mantle of a rabbi, however. On the flipside, others deeply involved in those endeavors are appalled he\u2019s now officially part of a rigid old guard. His brother Rabbi Benny Lau, one of many prominent Israelis he\u2019s related to, expresses carefully worded disapproval: \u201cI think he is playing a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> with Judaism.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But the role of embedded provocateur and status quo challenger that Lau-Levie has now assumed \u2014 to some strong pushback, including published cries that it represents an \u201cexistential threat\u201d to Jews \u2014 only becomes fully clear well into \u201cSabbath Queen.\u201d Jumping back and forth in time, the documentary spends its first hour cramming in an array of subtopics that are all interesting, but feel rather arbitrarily structured by four credited editors. They include the story of our protagonist\u2019s Polish grandfather, who perished in the Holocaust; his father\u2019s starry political career (he\u2019s seen photographed with both Kissinger and Liz Taylor); and latter-day footage of Orthodox protestors hurling abuse at women in Israel who seek access to traditionally male institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Amichai\u2019s own backstory encompasses non-consensual outing in the Israeli press, which led to his 1997 emigration; subsequent self-discovery via the NYC gay club scene and the Radical Faeries\u2019 queer spirituality; the career of drag persona Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross; his co-parenting with a lesbian couple; a long-term lover who passed away from HIV complications; involvement in the Occupy Wall Street and anti-occupation movements, and more. There are also brief animated sequences by Yaron Shin \u2014 a welcome addition, though also one that further makes \u201cSabbath Queen\u201d feel so stuffed with material, we can\u2019t always get a secure grasp on it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Oddly, the film rushes past the six years of Lau-Lavie\u2019s JTS studies, when his simultaneous attempt to infiltrate and dismantle the high fortress of traditional, patriarchal religious practice should snap its central conflict into sharp narrative focus. Though this subject\u2019s life certainly has room for contrary messaging, DuBowski heightens a slightly chaotic overall impression with the same organizational issues that afflicted \u201cTrembling Before G-d\u201d (and \u201cA Jihad for Love,\u201d which he produced). The potency of the themes addressed is not ideally served by their editorial assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Still, this fast-paced, well-shot doc does place its finger on the quickening pulse of an ever-wider gap between liberalizing Western <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> values and the Orthodox sphere that believes they are antithetical to Judaism. It\u2019s a painful divide, but one that \u201cSabbath Queen\u201d helps keep at least partly in the realm of civil argument.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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