Gesa Power House Theatre proudly presents Sabbath Queen on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, at 7PM. This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Washington State Arts Commission. A q&a session with Director and Producer, Sandi DuBowski, live on the Gesa Power House Theatre stage will follow this screening!

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. 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, ceasefire, and an end to the Occupation in Israel/Palestine. The film interrogates what Jewish survival means in a difficult rapidly changing 21st century.

This film is directed and produced by Sandi DuBowski.